Donald Ross was the son of Andrew and Isabellla Ross, Redburn, Edderton.  Donald worked in Tain in Wallace and Fraser the ironmongers.

His number indicates he enlisted in the 4th Seaforth Highlanders his local battalion. At some point, probably returning to the front after recovering from being gassed in August 1917, he was put into the 6th Battalion where he was killed in action on the 25th March 2018 during the German Offensive close to the village of Lourville at Beaumetz. He was 31 at the time.

The 6th Seaforths had managed to keep the advancing Germans back that day but by the afternoon other battalions at either side had had to withdraw.  This meant the Germans could go round the flanks of Donald's regiment. They too had to withdraw the war diary records, " The men started back well and in order but when they came to climb the slope to the ridge behind we had to run through a very heavy machine gun and rifle fire barrage and suffered many casualties"