Donald Ross
Colonel Donald Grant Ross, OBE, DL (born 24 June 1946[1]) is a retired British Army officer and former Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire.[2]
Ross served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1965 to 1996. As a junior officer he served West Berlin, at the height of the Cold War.[3] Between 1996 and 1998, he was Commandant of Garelochhead Army Training Area, and between 1998 and 2003 of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Battalion of the Army Cadet Force. He is deputy chairman of the Southern Area Committee of Highland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association, and member of the Executive Committee of Erskine Hospital. He was further a member of the Church of Scotland Committee on Chaplains to the Armed Forces.
Ross became Deputy Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire in 2004, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the following year. In 2007, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire. He is married and has three children. Ross resigned as Lord Lieutenant in 2008.
References
- ↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 24 June 2013. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-6-24.html. Retrieved 23 June 2014. "Col Donald Ross, Lord–Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire, 2007–08, 67"
- ↑ "www.number10.gov.uk". http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page10968.asp. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
- ↑ "Donald Ross remembers Berlin". Remembering Scotland at War. http://www.rememberingscotlandatwar.org.uk/Accessible/Exhibition/221/Berlin-Cold-War-soldiering. Retrieved 2015-01-05.