Manchester Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of John Henry Roberts Rose,
formerly of the Red House, Yoxford, Suffolk, and late of 21, Victoria
Road, Withington, Manchester, Engineer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of
John Fletcher, of Long Sutton, Lincolnshire; _b._ Beckenham, co.
Kent, 18 May, 1866; educ. Wrexham and Manchester Grammar Schools;
was for many years in business with the Calico Printers Association,
Manchester, but early in 1914, became a partner in the firm of Etchells
Cougdon & Muir, Engineers, Ancoats, Manchester. He had joined the 6th
Lancashire (2nd Manchester) Volunteers in Nov. 1884, and received a
commission in the old 5th Volunteer (now the 8th Territorial) Battn. of
the Manchester Regt., Nov. 1904. He was gazetted Capt. 15 June, 1906,
after passing the School of Instruction for field service, and on the
outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered with his regt. for foreign
service. He left England, 10 Sept. 1914, and proceeded to Egypt where
they landed, 27 Sept. 1914. Three weeks later the Battn. were sent
to Cyprus, landing 20 Oct. They were the only troops on the Island,
and Capt. Rose was in command of the detachment at the annexation
ceremony at Limasol on 7 Nov. 1914. On 18 Jan. 1915, they left Cyprus
for Cairo, where they stayed until they embarked for Gallipoli on 2
May, landed at the Dardanelles, 4 May, and was killed in action at
Achi Baba, Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915. A brother officer wrote: “Rose did
splendidly well, behaving (I saw him) with the utmost gallantry. When
I left about one hour before he was killed, he was alive and well, and
doing jolly well in exceedingly difficult and dangerous circumstances.
He was always at it, comforting the badly wounded, conducting the
midnight burials, and so on, and many fellows had cause to thank him
for numerous such services performed, all at the sacrifice of the
little time available for rest. These things were done quietly and
without advertisement, but I saw them and think it right they should be
recorded. On the day of the big fight he did splendidly, taking risks
in his efforts of cheering and encouraging his men. He died a gallant
gentleman”; and another: “Rose was perfectly splendid over here....
He was an absolute hero.” He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s
Despatch of 22 Sept. 1915 [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915], for gallant
and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Rose received the Long
Service medal in Nov. 1904. and the Territorial Decoration in May,
1915; was a good marksman, a Bisley shot and won the old Mancunians
gold cup. He took a great interest in the work of the Church Lads
Brigade, and was for some time Adjutant of the 6th Manchester Church
Lads Brigade. He _m._ at Croydon, Surrey, 2 Aug. 1899, Caroline
Emily (Tregenna, Cheadle, Cheshire), dau. of the Rev. Thomas Theodore
Waterman, Secretary of the Christian Evidence Society, and had two
daus.: Marian, _b._ 24 July, 1900; and Margaret Louisa, _b._
29 Oct. 1905.
[Illustration: =Herbert John Rose.=]
=ROSE, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1973D, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ROSE, LAUNCELOT ST. VINCENT=, Major, 55th Field Coy., Royal
Engineers, 2nd _s._ of Frederick William Rose, of Tarlogie,
co. Ross, by his wife, Katherine Ross, dau. of Daniel Gilchrist,
of Ospisdale, and grandson of Major Hugh Monro St. Vincent Rose,
12th Lancers; _b._ London, S.W., 4 Aug. 1875; educ. St. Paul’s
(Scholar) and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd
Lieut., Royal Engineers, 15 March, 1895, and promoted Lieut. 15 March,
1898, Capt. 1 April, 1904, and Major 30 Oct. 1914; served in Gibraltar;
in Ireland doing Ordnance Survey Work; went to South Africa in 1910;
returned to England with the 7th Division after the outbreak of war, 19
Sept. 1914; went direct to Lyndhurst Camp to get his 55th Field Coy.
equipped; left with it for France, 5 Oct. following; took part in the
First Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action near Sailly-sur-La-Lys,
Rue de Bethune, 28 Nov. 1914. Buried there. A brother officer wrote:
“Very keen regret at his death is felt through the Division, as he was
liked by all who knew him, whilst the men of the company feel that they
have lost a friend, as well as an officer. He died attempting a very
brave act”; and the following is an extract from the 20th Brigade War
Diary: “29 Nov. 1914, Major Rose, commanding the 55th Field Coy., Royal
Engineers, which has been attached to the Brigade during the war, was
killed last night putting up the wire outside the trenches--a great
loss. Neither he nor his company have spared themselves in helping us
with our trenches and wire entanglements the whole time. He was a man
full of resource and courage.” A commanding officer wrote: “He was a
fine officer and a great loss to us all. We were all so fond of him,
always cheery and hard-working, he met a soldier’s death in work of
great risk and had done already his full share of fighting for his
country and for freedom.” Another extract: “Such a plucky chap, and
just the sort we want. He need not have joined in the attack in the
wood as he was cutting stakes for barbed wire, and the Brigade came
along for an attack, passed his company, so he ordered them to charge
with the Brigade and fixed bayonets: it is called the R.E. Charge.”
He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14
Jan. 1915. At St. Paul’s he was in the rowing four for two years,
and for some time Capt. of the four; was in the gymnasium eight at
Woolwich Academy in 1894; represented Woolwich in their running team,
winning many prizes; his best record being the half mile in 2 minutes,
6 seconds, in a grass track. He represented the officers at Rugby and
rowed for two seasons, giving many fine exhibitions in the R.E. four.
While in Gibraltar he gained a name for himself as a polo player, and
played in the Garrison’s team. He ran ponies in several races, winning,
amongst others, the well-known Steeplechase for the Subalterns Cup,
riding his pony himself in that race. He also won many prizes in the
Gymkhana Races, and in one cracked his skull and was unconscious for
a fortnight. He started a boxing club for the N.C.O. and sappers,
which was in flourishing condition. In Ireland he won many prizes for
his flowers, being a great gardener, and in South Africa went in for
big game shooting, polo, playing, etc. He _m._ at St. John’s
Church, Chelsea, 18 Dec. 1909, Jonkvrouwe Agneta Wendela Elizabeth (The
Chestnuts, Hartford Bridge, Winchfield, co. Hants), dau. of Jonkheer
Dr. Wilhem van Citters, of Zeeland, Holland, Consul-General for the
Netherlands in Berne, and had a dau.: Noreen Leonie Ross, _b._ 16
Oct. 1913. His brother, Capt. Walrond Rose, of the Cameronians, was
killed in action, 22 Oct. 1914.
[Illustration: =Launcelot St. Vincent Rose.=]
=ROSE, OWEN WILLIAM=, Private. No. 1795, 8th Battn. The Middlesex
Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of George Thomas Rose, Private, No.
12775, 6th (Service) Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., by his wife, Mary
(4, Du Burstow Terrace, Hanwell), dau. of George Mills, of Uxbridge,
Middlesex; _b._ West Ealing, London, W., 6 Oct. 1896; educ.
St. Mark’s Council School, Hanwell; and was employed as a roundsman
at Sainsbury’s when war broke out. He had joined the Middlesex
Territorials about 1912, and volunteered for foreign service; mobilized
at Sittingbourne and went with his regiment to Gibraltar and while
there shot a German prisoner who was trying to escape from a detention
camp. The matter was the subject of an official enquiry and it was held
that Rose had done no more than his duty. He afterwards accompanied
the Battn. to France, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 30 April,
1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Owen William Rose.=]
=ROSE, RONALD HUGH WALROND=, Capt., 1st. Battn. The Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles), yst. _s._ of the late Frederick William Rose,
of Kensington, and grandson of Major Hugh Monro St. Vincent Rose, of
Tarlogie, co. Ross, 12th Lancers; _b._ London, 11 July, 1880;
educ. Scott’s Preparatory School, Kensington, and St. Paul’s; gazetted
2nd Lieut., Royal Warwickshire Regt. from the Militia, 4 Jan. 1899; and
promoted Lieut., 17 March, 1900, and Capt. 4 May, 1905, transferring to
the Scottish Rifles, 20 May, 1900; was Adjutant of Volunteers, 10 Oct.
1906, to 31 March, 1908, and Adjutant Territorial Force, 1 April, 1908,
to Jan. 1910; joined his regt. at Bloemfontein in 1910, and nine months
later was made Commandant of the South African School of Signalling at
Pretoria; returned to Scotland in 1912, and was stationed at Glasgow
when war broke out in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary
Force the same month; took part in the Retreat from Mons, the Battles
of the Marne and the Aisne; was wounded in the ankle during the German
rush for Calais, when he was in command of a covering party to the
regt., but went on leading his men until he was killed at Fromelles
in the same action, 22 Oct. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John
(now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He _m._ at Eastham,
29 March, 1910, Hetty (The Paddock, Heston, Cheshire), yst. dau. of
the late George Fletcher, of Liverpool, and had two children: Audrey,
_b._ 13 April, 1912; and Jean Diana, _b._ 1 May, 1914.
[Illustration: =Ronald Hugh W. Rose.=]
=ROSE, THOMAS=, Private, No 1466, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots
(T.F.), elder _s._ of Lewis Rose, Caretaker, Edinburgh Public
Library, by his wife, Hughina, dau. of John McIntosh, Farmer,
Tonque; _b._ Edinburgh, 20 July, 1896; educ. Broughton Public
School (Junior and Higher Grade), Edinburgh; was an apprenticed
clerk in the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co., 64, Princes
Street, Edinburgh; joined the 4th Royal Scots (T.F.) in March, 1913;
volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914;
went to the Dardanelles, 13 June, 1915, and was killed in action there,
13 July following. His Sergt. wrote: “I always found him a good soldier
and a willing and consistent worker. He never shirked anything either
while we were at home or since we have been out here, and we all feel
deeply the loss of one of our most steady, reliable, and hard-working
comrades.” The Manager of his firm writing, said: “He was a boy of
promise, and would probably have had a successful career here.”
[Illustration: =Thomas Rose.=]
=ROSE, TOM ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1751), 200364. H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=ROSEVEARE, HAROLD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Wiltshire
Regt., eldest _s._ of the Rev. Richard Polgreen Roseveare, Rector
of St. Paul’s, Deptford, and Rural Dean of Greenwich, by his wife, Mary
Isabel, dau. of Thomas Martin Skinner, of Monmouth. J.P.; _b._
Monmouth, 18 March, 1895; educ. Little Appley School, Ryde (1902–8),
Marlborough College (Scholar, 1908–July 1914), and had won a classical
scholarship at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he was to have
gone into residence in Oct. 1914. He had received a commission as 2nd
Lieut., in the Wiltshire Regt. (Special Reserve), 18 April, 1914; and
on the outbreak of war joined his regt. direct from his O.T.C. annual
training camp, 4 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary
Force on the 13th, and died 20 Sept, following, of wounds received in
action at the Battle of the Aisne the same day, while leading a section
of his men to locate and take a machine gun. Buried at Vailly. While
at Marlborough he was senior prefect, a member of the Rugby football
fifteen, and Cadet Captain of the O.T.C.
=ROSIER, FREDERICK=, Sergt., No. 9623, 7th (Service) Battn. The
Suffolk Regt., eldest _s._ of Brad Rosier, of Walsham-le-Willows,
by his wife, Rebecca, dau. of Frederick Price; _b._ Pakenham, co.
Suffolk, 5 June, 1875; educ. Rickinghall village school; enlisted in
the 2nd Northamptonshire Regt., 15 March, 1894; served in the South
African War, 1899–1902; receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps
(“Belmont,” “Modder River,” “Orange Free State,” “Transvaal”), and
King’s medal with two clasps (South Africa, “1901,” “1902”); took
his discharge, 14 March, 1903, and then joined the Reserve for six
years. After the outbreak of war he re-enlisted in the 7th Suffolks, 7
Sept. 1914, with his former rank of Sergt., and after acting as Drill
Sergt. for some time at Shorncliffe, went to France, 30 May, 1915, and
died in the Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 25 July, 1915, of wounds
received in action. Buried in Boulogne Cemetery (Grave No. 2582). His
commanding officer wrote: “He was not only a very efficient sergt.,
but also a good keen man on whom I knew I could always rely to carry
out the most dangerous of our duties. His pluck when in pain from his
wound was magnificent.” He was for ten years a bellringer at St. Mary’s
Church, Walsham-le-Willows, and was also secretary of the local branch
of his Trade Union. Sergt. Rosier _m._ at Walsham-le-Willows, 13
Dec. 1902, Ellen (Walsham-le-Willows, Bury St. Edmunds), yst. dau. of
the late William Knott, of Stanton, and had three children: Frederick
Arthur William, _b._ 26 July, 1903; Winifred Dorothy, _b._ 22
May, 1906, and Florence Lucy, _b._ 23 Aug. 1908.
[Illustration: =Frederick Rosier.=]
=ROSS, ARCHIBALD SEYMOUR=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own
Cameron Highlanders, 3rd and yst. _s._ of the late Edward
Charles Russell Ross, Barrister (first winner of the Queen’s prize at
Wimbledon), by his wife, Margaret Seymour (Callands, North Berwick),
yst. dau. of Capt. John Osborne, of 67, Eton Place, S.W., 6th
Inniskilling Dragoons; and gdson. of Horatio Ross, of Rossie Castle,
Montrose; _b._ The Rounds, Wimbledon Common, co. Surrey, 26 Nov.
1889; educ. Ardoreck, Crieff; and Glen Almond, Perth; joined the 3rd
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 18 Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd
Lieut. 26 Aug. 1914, afterwards being transferred to the 1st Battn. and
joined them at the front, 11 Feb. 1915; was reported missing after the
action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915, and was later ascertained
to have been killed that day while leading his men in a charge;
_unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot speak too highly
of Ross. He was brave to the extreme, and liked by all ranks. I shall
never forget his splendid coolness under very heavy shell fire on Neuve
Chapelle day, 10 March, 1915, an example, not only to the men, but to
myself as well”; and another: “if he died, he died splendidly. I have
never met anyone who I admired more. His character was great and noble,
his personality charming, his mind pure and simple. As he ran forward
to that fatal charge, he shook hands with a brother officer, left in
reserve, saying ‘Good-bye--if I don’t come through, anyway, it’s a
glorious death to die.’” 2nd Lieut. Ross was a good all-round sportsman
and expert with rod, rifle and gun, and a keen yachtsman.
[Illustration: =Archibald Seymour Ross.=]
=ROSS, CECIL JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7241). S.S.
102193, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ROSS, COLIN JOHN=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270035, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ROSS, GEORGE ALEXANDER SINCLAIR=, M.A., Capt., 1/4th Battn. The
Royal Scots (T.F.), elder _s._ of the late William Sinclair Ross,
of Marchmont Road. Edinburgh, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James
Nilson; _b._ Edinburgh, 8 March, 1870; educ. Edinburgh University,
where he graduated M.A. in 1894, and became a teacher of mathematics in
Broughton Higher Grade School, Edinburgh; joined the 6th Royal Scots
(T.F.) in 1902, as Lieut. in the College Coy. (recruited from students
attending the Training Colleges of the Scottish Churches studying in
Edinburgh); promoted Capt. 22 March, 1908; volunteered for foreign
service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was transferred to the
4th Battn. with the bulk of his Company, 19 Nov. following; went to the
Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915, leading his
Coy. in a charge on the enemy’s trenches; _unm._ He was a keen
golfer, being well known on several of the golf courses near Edinburgh.
[Illustration: =George Alexander S. Ross.=]
=ROSS, JAMES JOHN (ERIC)=, Private, No. 11208, 2nd Battn. Royal
Scots; _b._ Ireland, 6 Dec. 1888; educ. South African University;
went to South Africa with his parents in infancy, but returned to
England after their deaths; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 3 Aug. 1912;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France from Aug. 1914, and was
killed in action at Vierstraat, 22 March, 1915, being shot by a sniper
while on sentry duty; _unm._ Buried there.
=ROSS, JAMES OSWALD=, Private, No. 8/846, 14th Otago Battn. New
Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Duncan Ross, of Mandeville,
Southland, New Zealand, Farmer; _b._ Mandeville aforesaid, 7 Dec.
1891; educ. there; joined the Otago Regt., 1 April, 1911; volunteered
for Imperial service on the outbreak of the European War, at Dunedin,
22 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct.; took part
in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in
action there, 2 May following; _unm._ Buried at Walker’s Ridge.
=ROSS, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10808), S.S. 2905, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=ROSS, WILLIAM MUNRO=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders,
only _s._ of William Edmond Ross, and his wife, Gertrude Maud,
dau. of the late Thomas Bevan, of Stone Park, Greenhithe, co. Kent;
_b._ Bishops Stortford, co. Herts, 22 March, 1892; educ. St.
Andrew’s, Eastbourne, Eton (J. H. M. Hare’s House), and Pembroke
College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club and took a
Tripos degree in 1914. In Oct. 1914 he received a commission (dated 14
Aug.) as University Candidate in the 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders,
being given a year’s seniority in respect of his university degree,
was promoted Temp. Lieut. (commission ante-dated, 25 Oct. 1914) and
confirmed in rank of Lieut. Dec. following. In Jan. 1915, he took out a
draft to the 2nd Battn. (formerly the 92nd) and was killed close to the
German trenches in the attack on Neuve Chapelle, 11 March. A brother
officer wrote: “He was leading his platoon in splendid style when he
was hit by several bullets.” He was very keen on hunting, shooting and
cricket, and was very musical.
[Illustration: =William Munro Ross.=]
=ROSSER, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4251), 207934, H.M.S. Hogue; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ROSSITER, PHILIP=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt.,
elder _s._ of Sydney Rossiter, 11, Cumberland Road, Brighton,
Assistant Inspector of Schools for East Sussex, formerly Headmaster
(1904–14) of Fairfields School, Basingstoke, by his wife, Ada, dau.
of John Cooper, of High Street, Cheltenham; _b._ South Hackney,
London, 15 March, 1894; educ. Fairfields School and Queen Mary’s
Grammar School, Basingstoke and University College, Reading, where
he was a member of the O.T.C.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn.
of the Berkshires, 22 July, 1914, joined in August, sailed from
Southampton on 19 Dec. following and was attached on landing to the
2nd Queen’s Royal West Surreys; killed in action near Armentières,
19 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Buried at Fleurbaix. Philip Rossiter won a
Hants County Junior Scholarship in 1906 and a Senior in 1910. He held
the latter for four years at Reading University College. He was an
undergraduate of London University and passed the B.Sc. Intermediate
examination in 1912. At college he was Secretary and Treasurer of the
Sports Club and a member of the Student’s Representative Council. He
obtained his Colours for Rowing and was a member of the 2nd Four in
1913 and 1914. He, however, showed most interest in the O.T.C., in
which he attained the rank of Colour-Sergt. and passed the examinations
for both the “A” and “B” Certificates. He was also a keen swimmer, and
at Basingstoke Grammar School he won the Senior Cup for two years in
succession. His younger brother, Sydney, Leading Seaman, Nelson Battn.
R.N.D., was severely wounded at Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915.
[Illustration: =Philip Rossiter.=]
=ROSSON, WILLIAM HAROLD=, Private, No. 3782, 9th, attd. 1/7th,
Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Joseph Rosson,
of The Cottage, Kestrel Grove, Bushey Heath, Butler to Mr. W. B.
Gair, of Kestrel Grove, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John Cato, of
Kirtlington, near Oxford; _b._ Bushey Heath, 14 Nov. 1896; educ.
Stanmore, Middlesex; was a Groom; joined 9th Middlesex, 8 Aug. 1914;
transferred to the 1/7th Battn. and left for France, 13 March, 1915,
and died at Merville Hospital, 18 June, 1915, of wounds received on the
15th. Buried in Military Cemetery, Merville; _unm._ His Company
Commander, Capt. I. M. Cossar, wrote: “he was seriously wounded on the
15th of this month, as we were coming into the trenches. The Germans
turned a machine-gun over the ground behind the trenches for some long
distance back, and caught the company, wounding two of my best men.
Your son received a bullet wound in his back, injuring the spinal
column. He was at once taken to the dressing station where a motor was
waiting to take him to Merville Hospital. His wound was very serious.”
[Illustration: =William Harold Rosson.=]
=ROSTRON, JOHN=, Private, No. 6/928, D Westland Coy., Canterbury
Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force; _b._ about 1872;
educ. Peel School, Little Hulton; was for some time in the mechanic’s
shop at Lord Ellesmere’s Wharton Hall Colliery; went to New Zealand
in 1903, and took up work in the coal pit at Ronango; volunteered for
Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canterbury
Infantry Regt.; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the
Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915. He _m._
at Peel Church, Little Hulton, 20 Feb. 1901, Clara, dau. of Thomas
Boardman, and had a dau., Ethel (63, Manchester Road West, Bottom Lane,
Little Hulton), _b._ 4 April, 1902.
=DE ROUGEMONT, MAURICE HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s
Royal West Surrey Regt., only _s._ of Arthur Francis de Rougemont,
of 5, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Janet Emma,
dau. of Henry Goodenough Hayter, of Winterbourne, Sidmouth, South
Devon; _b._ Westbourne Gardens, London, W., 13 June, 1889; educ.
Charterhouse (Gown boys), 1903–07, and Lausanne, 1908; was at Lloyd’s;
joined the Artists’ Rifles, 1909; volunteered for foreign service on
the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France as Sergt. in the 1st
Battn. Oct. 1914, and, after passing through the School of Instruction
at Bailleul, received a commission in the 2nd Queen’s Royal West
Surreys, 27 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of
Festubert, 16 May, 1915. According to the statement made by his servant
they and two other men got separated from the rest of the Coy., and
after attending to some of our wounded in the trench near which they
found themselves, they came across another Coy. of the Queen’s, which
had lost all its officers. It was whilst leading his own men and this
Coy. that he was shot, as they were climbing the parapet of a German
trench; _unm._ Buried near Festubert. An officer wrote, “He was an
excellent officer, and very much liked by his men. His loss is a great
trouble to them”; and another: “If there is one thing that can help you
in your loss, it will be knowing that he died doing his duty like a
man, and leading his platoon over the German trenches. He was shot when
on the top of the parapet.”
[Illustration: =Maurice H. de Rougemont.=]
=ROURKE, THOMAS=, A.B., No. 234175, 1st Class Gunner, H.M.S.
Tiger, only _s._ of the late Edward Rourke, by his wife, Lucy
(5, Stand Street, London Road, Manchester), dau. of Dennis Kennedy;
_b._ Ashton-under-Lyne, 11 April, 1890; educ. St. Michael’s
School, George Lee Street, Ancoates; entered the Navy about 1906 and
was killed in action in the North Sea, 24 Jan. 1915; _unm._
=ROUST, JOSIAH ROBERT=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 307023, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=ROUTH, HAROLD=, Rifleman, No. 1959, 12th Battn. (The Rangers)
The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John Routh, of 189, Rosebury
Avenue, E.C.; _b._ Birmingham, 28 Aug. 1897; educ. there and
L.C.C. School; joined The Rangers in May, 1914; volunteered for
foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. following; served with
the Expeditionary Force in France, and died in the General Hospital,
Boulogne, 2 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Hill 60, on 27
April. Buried at Boulogne. He was the youngest in the regt.