Alec Donald Ross OAM (6 April 1936 – 30 March 2017) was an Australian tour guide, member of the stolen generation and custodian of the story of the Alice Springs Telegraph Station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
[1] Ross is the great-grandson of explorer John Ross, who came to Central Australia as part of the surveying teams for the Overland Telegraph Line, its most famous repeater station, the place where his great-grandson Alec later worked for a large part of his life.
He fell seriously ill at the age of three and was taken from his mother to The Bungalow, an institution for part-Aboriginal children based near the telegraph station in Alice Springs.
When the Japanese started bombing northern Australia in 1942, he and the other children, walked from Barklay Bay on the Arnhem Land coast right to Pine Creek through the bush.
He is the subject of a book, Alec, A Living History of the Alice Springs Telegraph Station by Shirley Brown.