Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 99

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name ERIC WOLLASTON ROSE (Capt)

Lef SES 1908

Roll Number 1239 Died 28:03:1918

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1906

Where GAVRELLE, NEAR ARRAS, FRANCE Serving with 1ST, LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE

Age 24

Buried Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France Remembered The Arras Memorial, Calais, The Chipping Norton War Memorial, Oxon, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1896 in Orton, Northamptonshire, the only son of a clergyman. He was at the School a short time and little is recorded. He was in the Lower IIIrd Form. At the outbreak of The Great War he was at first rejected as being too young, so instead joined the Sussex Yeomanry in October 1914. Eventually he was commissioned in the 1st Battalion, The London Regiment (The Rifle Brigade) in France in March 1915. He gallantly served on several fronts and was Mentioned in Despatches in February 1918, by which time he was a Captain in rank. He was finally killed in action in late March 1918 at Gavrelle, near Arras, France. ‘We were being attacked in overwhelming numbers and Rose was with me at Battalion Headquarters, helping to keep back the Germans. He was shot near me through the head and killed immediately. I cannot say how sorry I am in all ways. He was a gallant boy and I had the highest opinion of his capabilities as an Officer’ (his Commanding Officer).