Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

31/10/1914

Date of Discharge

05/04/1916

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

27/04/1884

Place of Birth

Ramsey, Hampshire UK

Address (at enlistment)

Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Albert Rawson (brother-in-law), Southampton, England

Service Number

416

Final Rank

Sapper

Final Unit

2 Field Company Engineers AIF

Rose was a labourer recruited at Queanbeyan whilst living at Canberra. After enlisting in October 1914 he embarked for Egypt in February 1915. In May 1915 he landed on Gallipoli and joined the 1st Battalion. In July he transferred to the Engineers and was taken on strength with the 2nd Field Company Engineers as a Sapper in August 1915. He was wounded in the head and ear by a bomb a few days later and evacuated to Mudros and then to Cairo for treatment. He returned to Australia in January 1916 for six months change but was discharged on 5 April 1916.

Later that year he married Geraldine Thompson. They had at least one son, Edward William Rose, who was born in Canberra in 1920 and served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War 2 and the Korean War. Rose later lived in the Leichhardt district of Sydney where he died on 5 December 1940.

Description - height 5 feet 4 inches, 143 pounds, chest 32½-35 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, Church of England.

Queanbeyan Age - 15 October 1915
Queanbeyan Leader - 13 December 1915
Roll of Voters - The Territory for the Seat of Government 1916
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)