Evelyn Jack Rose

Forenames

Evelyn Jack AWMM

Surname

Rose AWMM

Service number

WWI 25147 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

18 Aug 1894 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Gladwin Road, One Tree Hill, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

R.G. Rose (father), Gladwin Road, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 25147 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Student/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 15 Nov 1916-30 Jan 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 68 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM 13th Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, E Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 6th (Hauraki) Company AWMM

Evelyn Rose was the son of Robert Griffiths Rose and Bessie Rose, of 15 Gladwin Road, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand.

Attended King's College (1911-12).

Attended Auckland University College (now the University of Auckland).

Next of Kin: Mr R. G. Rose, Gladwin Rd, Onehunga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

Lieutenant E. Jack Rose, killed in action, was the third son of Mr. R. G. Rose, of Gladwyn [sic] Road, Epsom. Lieutenant Rose was educated at Nelson College, and later at King's College, Auckland. He was a keen football and tennis player. He afterwards became a student at St. John's College, Tamaki. In January, 1916, as a corporal, he went into camp, where he soon gained promotion, finally winning a commission in the nineteenth reinforcements. (Auckland Weekly News, 1 November 1917, p. 22). AWMM

Memorial name

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, World War 1 Roll of Honour.
  Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 15 May 2026 - King's College Memorial Chapel

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20807679
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880765
  Further Reference
• Auckland University College Roll of Honour.
  http://www.specialcollections.auckland.ac.nz/ww1-centenary/roll-of-honour/search?page=1165
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/848127/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/848127
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3957
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 23
• King's College, Auckland. (1918). King's College, Auckland : the Great War, 1914-18. Auckland, N.Z.: The College.
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 1 November 1917, p. 22.
• A.U.C. roll of honour, 1914 - 1920. MSS & Archives E-2, Special Collections, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.