ROSE, Dick Leopold
| Service Number: | WX19944 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 2 April 1918 |
| Home Town: | Burekup, Harvey, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 23 July 2007, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia The Western Australian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX19944, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Jul 1942: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 44th Infantry Battalion | |
| 7 Jul 1944: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion | |
| 13 Dec 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX19944, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Townsville for Aitape per Katoomba | |
| 30 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX19944, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion | |
| 5 Jun 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX19944, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, emplaned Moresby for Darwin NT |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Dick Leopold Rose (Service No:WX19944) enlisted in the Army on 3 March 1942 attached to 2/28 Infantry Battalion. Private Rose transferred to the Special Mobile Force (44th Infantry Battalion) on 3 July 1942 - the role of the Special Mobile Force was to protect Pearce Air Base and to provide rapid response to parachute threat or threat to Harvey beaches and Collie Power Station. On 7 July 1944 Private Rose transferred to 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion and embarked from Townsville on 13 December 1944 for Aitape. Emplaning from New Guinea for Darwin NT on 5 June 1946, Private Rose was attached to 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 30 November 1945.
Born in 1918 in Bunbury WA, Dick was the eldest of five children (all sons who served in WWII) of Thomas Leopold Rose (b1883 at Parkfield in Augusta, WA) and Dorothea Brooks Wilson (b1897 in Guildford, WA). Thomas (a Farmer) and Dorothea married in 1917 in Bunbury, WA and settled in Burekup where Thomas was a Farmer. In 1927, Thomas was killed when his car was hit by a train at a level crossing - leaving Dorothea with five sons between nine and one years of age.
Dick was a Farmer when he enlisted in the Army, and in 1942 in Perth WA he married Cicily Joan Dawson (b1919 in Katanning, WA) - known as Joan. Following his Discharge, Dick and Joan settled Burekup where Dick was a Farmer. Dick died in 2007 and Joan in 2013.
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