Claude Murray Ross (13 May 1893 – 17 August 1917) was an Australian

track and field athlete Track and field is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of ...

. Ross competed in the men's 400 metres hurdles for

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at the

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. In 1914, Ross from

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enlisted in the Field Artillery Brigade of the 1st Division,

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. In 1915, Ross was at both the April landing and December evacuation of the Gallipoli Campaign. In early 1917, he gained his commission in the

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. Ross was killed on 17 August 1917 aged 24 in the skies over

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Olympic profile
1893 births 1917 deaths Olympic athletes for Australasia Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Australian male hurdlers Australian military personnel killed in World War I Royal Flying Corps officers 20th-century Australian people Place of birth missing {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub

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