Name
William Thomas Rose
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/08/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
46334
Rifle Brigade
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Elstree Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Elstree, Not on Borehamwood memorials.
Pre War
William Thomas was born 1900 in St John’s Wood, London to Samuel Thomas Rose, a police constable, and Florence Amelia (nee Bamford).
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Drayton Road Elstree. On the 1911 Census the family were living at Malden Road, Borehamwood. William, the eldest son, had four sisters and a younger brother.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in the Rifle Brigade as Private 46334 and was assigned to 1st Battalion which had been in France since Sep 1914 as part of 11 Brigade 4 Division.
It was during the Battle of the Scarpe that William was killed in action. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France and on Elstree Memorials.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £4 and arrears of £8 0s 1d paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
