Family Search: When Private Ross Elwood Denison was born on 29 December 1896, in Chinguacousy, Peel, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas John Dennison, was 41 and his mother, Mary Catherine Mino, was 41. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1896 and Peel, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as shoemaker in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He died on 28 August 1918, in Vis-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, at the age of 21, and was buried in Wancourt, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Private Ross Ellwood Denison. Regimental no. 730086.
This man enlisted with the 111th Battalion on 25 November 1915, at Galt, Ontario. He was a Shoe Maker by trade and had no prior military experience.
He went overseas to England aboard the SS Tuscania, arriving on 5 October 1916 and was transferred to the 35th Battalion on the 13th at West Sandling Camp, Kent.
He was appointed as an Acting Lance-Corporal on 6 October 1916.
He was then transferred to the 39th Battalion on the 17th and was then transferred to the 6th Canadian Reserve Battalion on 4 January 1917 and TOS at Shorncliffe. He was then transferred to the 12th Canadian Reserve Battalion at East Sandling Camp on 1 March 1917. He was moved again, this time to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Bramshott on 17 April 1917.
He had appendicitis and was hospitalized for treatment.
He recovered, returned to his battalion, and was reverted to private for the purpose of proceeding overseas. He left Bramshott for the Continent on 8 December 1917, arriving with the 18th Battalion “in the field” on 16 December 1917.
He served and fought with the 18th Battalion until he was listed “missing” on 28 August 1918, which was then updated to “Killed in Action” in the Vis-en-Artois Sector.
Photo of Ross Denison – Caption (pg. 390): MEN OF PEEL KILLED DURING THE GREAT WAR. Author – William Perkins Bull. “From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930.” Toronto, 1935.
L.-CORP. R. DENISON IS REPORTED KILLED
Peel County Boys Suffer in Big Offensive – Red Cross Activities.
Special to The Star
Brampton, Sept 28. – Mr. Thomas J. Denison received word yesterday that his son, Lance-Corporal Ross Denison, made the supreme sacrifice on August 28th. Corporal Denison was employed [at] Preston with the Burlburt Shoe Company at the time of his enlistment with the 11th Battalion of Galt and went overseas in September 1916. He was taken ill in England and did not get to France until December, 1917. He has been in all the big fights since the spring and had escaped unwounded. Corporal Denison was a cousin of Mrs. Arthur Fletcher of Brampton, was very well known in the town and was generally liked. Hew was only twenty-one years of age.
Source: Toronto Star, Sept. 26, 1918
Brampton, Ont., Nov. 18
Ross Denison of Huttonville, was killed in the latter part of August, and his mother passed away very suddenly last night from heart disease, aggravated by the grief she felt for her son. Mrs. Denison was the daughter of the late John Mino, and grand-daughter of the late Joel Worts, early settlers on the west side of Chinguacosy. She leaves five daughters and her husband, and one brother, John Mino, of Brampton.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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