Rose, George Douglas
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regiment: 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of Dr. George Rose, Aberdeen ; born Aberdeen, 29 April 1895 ; educated at the Grammar School ; entered the University 1911 ; graduated M.A., 1915, with Second Class Honours in Economics. He joined his Battalion in July 1915, was gazetted the same month, and became acting Lieutenant in October 1916. He spent about two years at Ripon and Norwich, from July 1915 to March 1917, then crossed to France in April 1917 and fought at first in minor engagements around Ypres in Flanders. On 20 September 1917 his Battalion was ordered to take Poelcapelle, the fighting developed into the Battle of Passchendaele, and his company was detailed to capture a small farm called Rose Farm. In this encounter he was killed in a hand-to-hand fight at the end of the day, 20 September 1917. He was happy in his work as a soldier and successful as an officer.
Date of Death: 20 September 1917
Burial Details: Name recorded on Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele, Panel 135, Column 1.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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