SERVICE PERSON DETAILS
Service Person’s
Name
George William Rose
Rank
Service Number
Regiment/Unit or
Ship or Squadron
Date of Birth
Trooper
742
5 th Australian Light Horse Regiment
14 March 1896
Place of Birth
Family Details
Maroon, near Boonah
Son of Samuel & Annie Rose (nee Weatherall) of Cotswold, Boonah. Married in 1882.
Siblings:
Alfred George Rose (1883 – 1883), George Alfred Rose (1885 – 1886), Albert James
Rose, Arthur Samuel Rose, Adelaide Mary Rose, Annie Elizabeth Rose
Half Siblings:
Charles Samuel, Samuel William
18 Age at Enlistment
Place of Enlistment Boonah
Date of Death
Place of Death
Cemetery or
Memorial Name
Grave or Memorial
Number
PHOTO:
29 November, 1915
Gallipoli
Ari Burnu Cemetery
I 2
Source: WWI Pictorial Honour Roll of Queenslanders 2013, George
William Rose http://qld.ww1anzac.com/ro.html
(accessed 28 January,
2015)

SERVICE PERSON’S STORY/EULOGY:
Prepared by Amy Stratford
George William Rose, was born on 14 March 1896, at Maroon, Queensland. He was the third child of
Samuel and Annie Rose who were both born in England. He also had four half siblings as his father’s first wife, Adelaide, had died and he later remarried.
George attended Maroon State School and after leaving school he went to work as a printer. George enlisted in Boonah on 11 December 1914. He was given the service number 742. He was only 18 years and
9 months old. His enlistment papers state he was 5 feet 8 ¾ inches tall. He had a fair complexion, grey eyes, fair hair and his religious denomination was Methodist.
Rose embarked overseas on 9 February 1915 and was taken on strength with the 5 th Light Horse Regiment,
2 nd Reinforcement. He left Australia in Brisbane on board HMAT A53 Itria.
They disembarked in Egypt on 25 October 1915 and joined the Light Horse on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the
14 November 1915. On 20 November 1915 a routine order was written at Anzac to gazette the allotment of the men into the established strength of the regiment in order to draw pay and rations. George William
Rose was in ‘B’ Squadron.
Only nine days later on 29 November 1915, Trooper George William Rose was killed in action on the
Gallipoli Peninsula. He was buried at the Gallipoli Peninsula New Zealand Point Cemetery Grave 4 Row 9 but was later moved to the Ari Burni Cemetery Row I Grave 2.
In December 1915, his father wrote to the Secretary of Defence in Melbourne as he had received word that
Private GW Rose service number 4573 of the 5 th Light Horse had been killed in action. As he knew this was not his son’s service number he wanted to know if a mistake had been made in regard to his son’s death or service number and asked for any further particulars that may come to hand. An error had simply been made with the service number as another soldier with the same name was also killed (but he was from
Victoria).
George’s personal effects were returned to his family and they also received a photograph of his grave in
Gallipoli. Trooper George William Rose is remembered on the World War 1 War Memorial in Maroon as a tribute of gratitude and respect to the local volunteers of the Great War.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
5th Light Horse Regiment 2015, Q and R (2000), http://www.anzacs.org/5lhr/pages/5lhrmembersqr1.html
(accessed 14 February 2015)
Australian Light Horse Study Centre 2009, Roll of Honour, www.research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog/1931728/5th-australian-light-horse-regiment-roll-ofhonour/ (accessed 14 February 2015)
Australian War Memorial 2015, Roll of Honour: George William Rose http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1665997/ (accessed 14 February 2015)
Every Man Remembered. (2014), George William Rose, http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/621682/ (accessed 14 February 2015)
National Archives of Australia. (2015), ROSE George William: Service Number – 742, http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8037566
(accessed 14 February 2015)

Queensland War Memorial Register. (2015), Maroon War Memorial (Digger) http://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/memorial/?id=822 (accessed 14 February 2015)
The Anzac Project 2015, Gallipoli Graveyards, http://www.anzacs.net/GRAVES/Cemeteries/Cemetery_c.htm
(accessed 14 February 2015)
WWI Pictorial Honour Roll of Queenslanders 2013, George William Rose http://qld.ww1anzac.com/ro.html
(accessed 28 January, 2015)