This is a brown cloth board covered tie bound album, containing 90 photographs lightly glued in.

This album contains photographs relating to the naval service of Dr James Ness Macbean Ross (d.1964), MC and Bar between 1914 -15 while serving in HMS Mars (1896). There are many deck views of Mars and photographs of officers, nearly all identified, taken in 1914. During WWI Ross was a temporary surgeon in the Royal Naval Division and Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion RMLI. He served in Gallipoli, Salonica and France and was awarded the Military Cross and Bar (1917), was mentioned in despatches three times and was twice wounded. He was invalided out of the Navy in 1917. HMS TB2 (1906) is also depicted.

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