Clive Wilson ROSE

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ROSE, Clive Wilson

Service Number:	WX26689
Enlisted:	21 July 1942
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bunbury, Western Australia, 26 January 1923
Home Town:	Burekup, Harvey, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 27 July 1967, aged 44 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

21 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX26689, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
23 May 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX26689, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lance Corporal Clive Wilson Rose (Service No:WX26689) served in the AIF with 2/11 Infantry Battalion from 21 July 1942 to 23 May 1946.

Clive was the fourth of five children (all sons who served in WWII), born in 1923 in Bunbury WA to Thomas Leopold Rose (b1883 at Parkfield in Australind, WA) and Dorothea Brooks Wilson (b1897 in Guildford, WA). Thomas (a Farmer) and Dorothea married in 1917 in Bunbury, WA and settled at Burekup where they raised their family and Thomas was a Farmer. Thomas was killed in December 1927 when his car was hit by a train on a level crossing, leaving Dorothea a Widow with five sons under nine years of age.

Four years of age when his father died, Clive grew up on the family farm 'Ventonia' at Burekup, where he returned following his Discharge from the Army in 1946. In 1948 in Katanning WA, Clive married Marjorie Deborah Dawson (b1924 in Wagin, WA) - Marjorie served in the RAAF in WWII. Clive and Marjorie lived at Burekup before settling at Roelands nr Harvey WA in the early 1950s, where they raised their family and Clive was a Farmer. Clive died in 1967 and Marjorie in 2012.

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