Private Edward Rose

Service number 8054
Birth Place Australia: Tasmania, Bagdad
Death Date 1918-06-01
Death Place United Kingdom
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • 12th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 12th Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Private Edward Rose (8054, 12th Battalion) was born in 1902 in Bagdad, Tasmania. He was admitted to the Military Hospital at Sutton Veny on 22 May 1918 with measles and pneumonia, and died on 1 June 1918. He is buried in the Sutton Veny (St John) Churchyard, United Kingdom. His father wrote that he was 16 and a half years of age.

Rolls

Timeline

Date of enlistment 10 September 1917
Date of embarkation 28 February 1918
Date of death 01 June 1918
Date of fate 01 June 1918