Robert Ross Hartman (1887 – 1918)

Ross Hartman was born in Aurora, Ontario, the son of Isaac Josephus Hartman. He attended school in Dawson.¹⁾ Isaac Hartman was a Dawson postmaster.²⁾ Ross was educated at Upper Canada College from 1902 to 1905, a private school for boys in Toronto, and then he returned to Dawson. He mined for gold until 1907 when he travelled south to work in the hardware business. He enlisted in the First World War in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in March 1916, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 227th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was deployed to France in September 1917 and attached to the 11th Canadian Motor Battery. He suffered machine gun wounds to both legs in September 1918. A soldier was dressing his legs when an exploding shell killed them both. Lieutenant Hartman was awarded the British Military Medal and Allied Victory medal. He is buried in Drury Mill British cemetery in Pas de Calais, France.³⁾