Rose, Frederick Alexander
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regiment: 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of Hugh Rose, builder. Born Huntly, 18 September 1890; educated at the Gordon Schools, Huntly; entered the University in 1907 as Second Bursar. He took a good place in all his classes; and graduated M.A., 1911, with First Class Honours in English. For a year he acted as assistant in English and in 1911 entered Christ Church, Oxford, winning the Douglas Jerrold Scholarship. While an undergraduate he gained the Charles Oldham University Scholarship by a paper on Shakespeare. He graduated at Oxford with First Class Honours in 1913. He was immediately elected to a post-graduate Scholarship and was beginning to prepare a thesis on Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, and an edition of his difficult poems, when the war broke out. Rose at once joined the Officers Training Corps and was soon gazetted to the 3rd Gordons. In the early Summer of 1915 he was ordered to join the 4th Battalion in France, but had not been out many weeks when, the line being heavily shelled, he came out from the dug-out in which he was resting to steady and encourage his men, and was struck and killed by a bursting shell, 10 August 1915. So died a very fine gentleman, modest, courageous, honourable and one who would, had he lived, have become a great scholar, for he had all the natural aptitudes and was training himself patiently in the fine discipline which alone can produce that rare thing the genuine scholar and critic.
Date of Death: 10 August 1915
Burial Details: Buried at Chester Farm Cemetery, Zillebeke, Plot 1, Row F, Grave 4.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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