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--- "Morning Post" 30 Oct 1855, page 5:
We regret to say that the last accounts from the Crimea leave no hope that Captain Ross, of the Buffs, who was returned missing on August 31, has survived that day. The only consolation to his family is the high character given of him to them by the commanding officer of his regiment, and by officers of higher rank -- one of whom mentions him as one of the best and bravest officers in the trenches. In the short space of ten months all the four grandsons of the late Marquis Cornwallis, who were in the army, have fallen in the Crimea, namely, two sons of Lord and Lady Braybrooke, one of the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, and one of Mr. and Lady Mary Ross.
--- "Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis" Vol. 1, page 16
(Note) Charles Cornwallis Ross, Captain 3rd Regiment (the Buffs), eldest son of Charles Ross, Esq., and Lady Mary Ross, b. April 5, 1827. On the night of Aug. 31, 1855, he was engaged in posting sentries in advance of the trenches when the Russians fired upon the party. Captain Ross never returned to the camp, and all efforts at that time to learn his fate were unavailing. About a year later it was ascertained that he was carried mortally wounded into Sebastopol, and lived only long enough to give his name. His brother officers erected a monument to his memory on Cathcart's Hill.
--- Inscription of Cenotaph at Kensal Green Cemetery, London:
In Memory of
Charles Cornwallis Ross
Captain ??? Regiment (The Buffs)
Who Fell in the Crimea
Born April 5th 1827
Who Died in the Trenches
Before Sebastopol
August 31st 1855
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1827 - 1855 (28 years)
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