Rose J C R Lt 2nd Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders

Rose J C R Lt 2nd Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders

LIEUTENANT J. C. R. ROSE

2ND BATTALION PRINCESS LOUISE’S (ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS)

JOHN CHARLES REGINALD ROSE was the only child of Colonel J. L. Rose, of the Worcestershire Regiment.

He entered the School in 1905, and left in 1909, passing on to the R.M.C., Sandhurst.

He obtained his first Commission in March, 1911, and was promoted Lieutenant in 1914.

He went to the Front in August, 1914, and was in the Retreat from Mons, and in the Battles of the Marne and Aisne. He was shot by accident in the trenches, November 8th, 1914, while serving with the Army in Flanders. Age 23.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

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