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Sydney Ross

Personal details

Full Name:

Sydney Gordon Ross

Lifetime:

6 Feb 1909 – 29 Aug 1946

Biography

Sydney Ross
Sydney Ross was perhaps the greatest political hoaxer in New Zealand’s history.

Events In History

29 March 1942

During the Second World War, convicted conman Sydney Gordon Ross duped New Zealand’s intelligence service into believing that Nazi agents were planning to carry out sabotage in New Zealand.