Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
please scroll down to send a message
254153
Pte. William Dennis Rose
British Army 2nd Btn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Beighton
(d.31st Oct 1918)
My Nan's brother William Rose left home and signed up in Wroxham to join the 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment and fought in France in WW1.
His brother Fred was in the Royal Horse Artillery.
William unfortunately was killed in action on 31st of October 1918 and is buried in a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Belgium. William was serving with the 2nd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment when he died. He is also remembered on a War Memorial outside Beighton Church and also a War Memorial in Long Stratton where his parents lived by the end of the war. They had moved as his father was a gamekeeper and had moved to a different farm.