LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Ellis Henry ROSS DFC
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 40060 (RAF)
Born: Tamworth NSW, 19 July 1914
Enlisted in the RAF: 1937
Unit: No. 83 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Scampton
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 83 Squadron Hampden I aircraft P4410), North West Europe, 13 August 1940, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas D. and Sarah J. Ross, of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 6, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Battle of Britain Memorial, Westminster Abbey, London UK
Flying Officer Ross was an Australian Cadet trained for the RAF who embarked for the UK on 17 July 1937.
On 13 August 1940, Hampden P4410 took off from Scampton to bomb the Dortmund-Ems Canal.
The aircraft was lost without trace with its four crew members.
The crew members of P4410 were:
Sergeant Ronald John Buckley (987980) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Joseph Langley Dewhurst (580488) (RAF) (Observer)
Flying Officer Ellis Henry Ross DFC (40060) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Kenneth Anthony Sayer DFM (548614) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator)
References:
Chorley, W.R. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record AWM65, 4480
Newton, Dennis A Few of the Few: Australians and the Battle of Britain, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2600, 1990