This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ross Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/219 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 2, 1918 WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE ORVILLE CLAUD ROSS, SON OF A. ROSS, OF THIS CITY, DIES FACING ENEMY FALLS AT FRONT OCTOBER 30 Leaves Widow and Infant Child In Denver, Colorado, Particulars Meagre. >From Saturday’s Daily. ROSS who has been working in the Burlington shops at this place for some time past received a message yesterday announcing the sad news of the killing of his son, in action in France, on October 30. Orville Claude [sic] ROSS, who was a young married man, had gone to the service of his country from Big Sandy, Montana, during last June, and had arrived in France in the latter part of July, being there since. The wife and their little babe had been staying at Mound Valley, Kansas, but recently had gone to Denver. Mr. A. Ross, the father of the young man who was killed, lives in this city, and will depart for Denver, where he goes to see about the welfare of the wife of his son and her child.