Name: Ross Glendon Turnbull Rank: Sergeant Service Number: F/34616 Service: 11th Independent Machine Gun Company, Princess Louise Fusiliers, RCIC Date of Birth: November 13, 1910 Place of Birth: Digby, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: September 29, 1939 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: 55 Lawrence St, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Age of Enlistment: 28 Occupation: Undertaker Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Sarah Turnbull (Mother), Digby, NS Height: 5 feet, 5 ½ inches Complexion: Fair Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Blue Date of Death: September 30, 1944 Age: 32 Cemetery: Cesena War Cemetery, Italy Grave: Section III, Row D, Grave 12 Commemorated on Page 466 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 6 Ross Glendon Turnbull was the son of Ernest Linwood Turnbull (1876-1920) and Sarah ‘Sadie’ Druscilla (Wormell) Turnbull (1880-1952), and the brother of Kenneth Linwood Turnbull (1907-1967), Lloyd Newton Turnbull (1909-2011), Anna Emma Linwood Turnbull (1913-1985), Alda May (Linwood) Turnbull (1913-1990), Harriet Augusta Linwood Turnbull (1915-1999), Percy (Jake) Ernest Turnbull (1916-1960), and Erma Drucilla Turnbull (1919-1977). After enlisting in September of 1939, Ross served as a bandsman with the Princess Louise Fusiliers, and was briefly hospitalized from January 1 to 17, 1940. Ross transferred to Debert, Nova Scotia, from October 19 to 28, 1942, before embarking in Halifax October 26, 1942, and arrived in the United Kingdom on November 4, 1942. He departed the UK October 22, 1943, disembarking in the Mediterranean Theatre November 10, 1943. Sergeant Ross Glendon Turnbull was killed in an accident mortar explosion on September 30, 1944, in Italy, and is interred at the Cesena War Cemetery in Forli, Italy on the provincial road to Cervia. One of the smaller war cemeteries, Cesena contains 775 graves, of which 307 are Canadian, representing nearly every unit of the Canadian Corps. Most of those who are buried here fell in the nearby battlefields during the Allied advance from Rimini to Forli and beyond, between late September and early December of 1944. Sergeant Ross Turnbull is also remembered on the Bear River War Memorial in Bear River, Nova Scotia.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave