Harry Ross-Soden

[6] It was a co-operative venture between the NSW and the Victorian Rowing Associations, there being no Australian governing body at the time.

Ross-Soden, Fraser and the Leichhardt man Henry Hauenstein joined the Sydney club to legitimise their entry.

Ross-Soden rowed in the seven seat at Henley when the eight progressed through their match races and beat the Leander Club in the final to take the 1912 Grand Challenge Cup.

[8] Onto Sweden for the 1912 Summer Olympics and with Keith Heritage changed out for the UK resident Australian Hugh Ward, Ross-Soden again rowed at seven.

He left Australia for England arriving in April 1917 where he received officer training with a machine gun company, he was posted to France in 1918, but was put on sick leave due to having a stone in his bladder, he returned to England and stayed there until 1919 when he moved back to Australia.