Ross McArthur Wright

Lance-Corporal, 91st Anti-Aircraft Battery Was born in Picton, Ontario, in September, 1892. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the Picton Collegiate Institute. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of the Metropolitan Bank, and after one year of service there he joined the staff of the Bank of Montreal. In December, 191 5, he enlisted with the Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, of the Imperial forces, and went overseas to join his unit in January, 1916. After a brief period or training and a few months of duty in England he was ordered to proceed with his unit to Salonica, where he was attached during the remainder of the war to the 91st Anti-Aircraft Battery of the British Expeditionary Force. A few days after the Armistice was signed he was stricken with pneumonia from which he died at Salonica on December 15th, 1918. -Bank of Montreal: Memorial of the Great War-