Letters of James Stuart Leslie Ross, 1916-1917

Ross, James Stuart Leslie (Lieutenant, b.1895 - d.1919)

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Places	Africa: South Africa, Cape Province, Cape Town Africa: South Africa, Natal, Durban Africa: West Africa, Sierra Leone, Freetown Approximate locations: At sea Europe: France Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London Europe: United Kingdom, England, Hampshire, Farnborough Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lincolnshire, Lincoln Europe: United Kingdom, England, Merseyside, Liverpool Europe: United Kingdom, England, Oxfordshire, Oxford Europe: United Kingdom, England, Shropshire Europe: United Kingdom, England, West Midlands, Birmingham Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Angus, Montrose Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Midlothian Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number	AWM2019.22.230
Collection number	3DRL/1298
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	File
Item count	1
Object type	Letter
Physical description	119 Image/s captured
Maker	Ross, James Stuart Leslie
Place made	At sea, United Kingdom
Date made	1916-1917
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Letters relating to the First World War service of 589 Lieutenant James Stuart Leslie Ross, 2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.

In his letters to his parents written between 29 October 1916 and 22 December 1917, Ross describes his experiences of serving abroad. Some of these experiences include embarkation at Port Melbourne, life on the ship, making stops in South Africa and Sierra Leone, and settling in England for training with the Royal Flying Corps. He then describes training as a wireless operator at Farnborough, Hampshire, celebrating Wattle Day, food and fuel rationing in England, his first time flying a plane, receiving mail from home, being selected for pilot training, air raids in London, basic flight training school in Oxford, a short period of leave in London, both solo flights and instructional flights, getting a frost-bitten face, and becoming lost while flying in fog.