Name
Francis bernard Roseveare
4 Oct 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/11/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Infantry (F.F.) (Lumsden's)
attd. 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
III. H. 8.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
NOW IS THE VICTOR'S TRIUMPH WON. ALLELUIA!
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hertford Heath memorials, Sedbergh School Cloisters, Sedbergh, Cumbria, School House Library,Sedbergh School, Sedbergh, Cumbria, Frontier Force Officers Died WW1, 59th Rifles & 5th Gurkha Rifles, Chelsea, London, Officers of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides, Chelsea, London.
Pre War
Francis Bernard was born at the Rectory, Thursford, Norfolk on 4 Oct 1896 (baptised 31 Oct 1896) to Richard Polgreen Roseveare, a clergyman, and Mary Isabel (nee Skinner) and was the second son of the family. On the 1901 Census Francis was living at the Rectory, Thursford with his parents, elder brother Harold, younger siblings Martin, Joan and Edward.
On the 1911 Census Francis was boarder at Sedbergh School Cumbria, while his parents with daughter Joan and brothers Richard Reginald (born 1902) and Cuthbert Trelawney (born 1905) were living at 186 Lewisham High Road, Deptford. There seems to be no connection with Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
Francis passed 4th in the entrance exam for Quetta Military Academy, India (now in Pakistan) in Feb 1915 and went to India in Apr 1915.
Commissioned in as 2nd Lieutenant in Nov 1915 (promoted to 1st Lieutenant in Nov 1917) in Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides and joining the Indian Expeditionary Force D (Mesopotamia) in Aug 1916 he was attached to 59th Scinde Rifles. He was wounded (head) when leading an attack on Turkish trenches at Tekrit on 5 Nov 1917 and died of his wounds on 9 Nov 1917 at Sammara.
Additional Information
Brother Harold served as 2nd Lieutenant in Duke of Edinburgh’s Own (Wiltshire) Regiment commissioned Apr 1914, in France from 13 Aug 1914 and died from wounds sustained in Battle of Aisne
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
