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Pte. Henry Rose

British Army 14th Battalion Durham Light Infantry

from:Sunderland

(d.20th-22nd April 1917)

Henry Rose was reported as missing during the Battle of Arras, his body was never found and he is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. He was born in January 1887 in Sunderland. 2nd of 4 brothers, all of whom served in the Army during WW1. His eldest brother John Rose born Sunderland 1891 served as a Private 2/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, died 23rd of November 1917 in a German POW camp. He is buried in Cologne. The fourth brother George Rose born Sunderland 1894, served in the Durham Light Infantry and was killed on the 26nd of March 1918 during the Kaiserschlacht, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres memorial. The third brother Charles Rose served in France in the Royal Garrison Artillery. The surviving son, he was posted back to UK in April 1918 and survived the war.



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