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Mona Ross, Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service
Mona Ross, Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service

This undated photograph shows Mona Ross (back row, right) with other members of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS).

Among the final pages in the album recording Lieutenant Alex Ross and wife Mona's short life together is this photograph, the only image showing Mona in WRCNS uniform. The date of her enlistment is not known, but it was probably after Alex's death in September 1943. For Mona Ross, and for the families and loved ones of the other members of HMCS St. Croix's crew lost in the sinking, the battle of the Atlantic changed lives forever.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19800567-001_p53



The Sinking of the SS Winnipeg II
Torpedo Damage to HMCS Chebogue
HMCS Trillium Crowded with Survivors
Depth Charge Explosion
U-744 Being Boarded
Survivors from U-569
"Squid Explosion", HMCS Copper Cliff
"Mae West" Life Belts, HMCS St. Laurent
U-210, Seen from HMCS Assiniboine
Fire-fighting, HMCS Assiniboine
Ramming U-210
U-210 Survivors
Burial at Sea, HMCS Assiniboine
HMCS Assiniboine Arriving at St. John's
Damage to HMCS Assiniboine
Ramming damage to HMCS Assiniboine
HMCS St. Croix
HMCS St. Croix in Halifax Harbour, December 1940
Lieutenant Charles Alexander Ross, HMCS St Croix
"Honeymooners"
"Our Bicycle Trip"
"Canadian Destroyer Sunk", HMCS St. Croix
Surgeon Lieutenant William Lyon Mackenzie King, HMCS St. Croix
Mona Ross, Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service