James Graham Ross was born at Balblair, Edderton on the 11th May 1888. His parents were James Ross J.P. and Jemmima Alexandria Ross of Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh.

James was a solicitor at Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He is remembered on the Saskatchewan Virtual Memorial.  On the site it says ' he enlisted as a private (13035) at Camp Valcartier, Québec, on the outbreak of the war.' 

He was killed on the 30th December 1917. According to the war diary the morning started cold and frosty with the enemy opening fire on the Seaforth's line. Trench mortars and heavy shells with machine guns sweeping the parapets continued until the enemy succeeded in entering the trench. They were immediately ejected with 20 German dead left in the trench and in No Man's Land. Another barrage of heavy shells came over with a new type of gas which left the snow covered in yellow patches. A thick mist fell by 8am  but by then 2Lt J G Ross and 10 other ranks were dead and 19 other ranks wounded.

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