ROSENOW, Adolphus Augustus
| Service Number: | 152 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 152, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 152, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
Adolophus Augustus ROSENOW
Adolophus Augustus ROSENOW
Adolophus Augustus ROSENOW (1877-1936) was a 39 y-old miner and a metallurgist when he enlisted in 1915. He was then a widower with no children. He was born in St Arnaud, Vic, where relatives of his mother Bertha (nee Buchecker) (1850-1895) appear to have lived.
In 1900, in Victoria, he married Sophia Julia Junghenn, the daughter of Adolphus Junghenn and Sophia (Lingelbach). She died in 1909. They did not have any children.
Adolophus (known as Dolf) went to the Kalgoorlie goldfields in WA in about 1900 with his father and his brother Otto. Just after the war, he married a widow, Maud Staniforth (nee Martin) in WA. He farmed at Merredin for a few years, possibly on a soldier settler block. He moved to Perth in about 1925 and later went to the north of W.A. He died there in 1936 and is buried at Port Hedland. Both his father and brother Otto also died in WA.
His father, Adolophus Gustav Rosenow (1842-1904) emigrated to Melbourne from Berlin in 1863 and became a mining assayer. He married in 1866 and in about 1880 moved to the gold-mining town of Gordon, near Ballarat, where he opened the Gordon Pyrites Mine in 1882
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Adolophus Augustus ROSENOW (Dolf) had three brothers, Gustav Edward (1867-1936), Alexander Otto (1869-abt 1926) and Herbert Lionel (1872-1959).
His brother, Lionel Rosenow, stayed in Gordon and in 1916 Lionel had a mine there extracting pipe-clay (kaolin). Lionel was a local councillor and became Ballan Shire President in 1906. In about 1940 Lionel’s son Eric Rosenow (1895-1972) opened a shop in Gordon and ran it for over twenty years before retiring to Ballarat.
Rosenow Street, Gordon, Victoria, is named after the Rosenow family.
Regimental number 152
Religion Church of England
Occupation Metalurgist
Address Merredin, Western Australia
Marital status Widower
Age at embarkation 39
Next of kin Friend, 'Scottie' Coburn, 9 Windsor Street, Leederville, Western Australia
Enlistment date 27 February 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 24 February 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 28th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/45/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia,
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 28th Battalion
Fate Returned to Australia 31 October 1917
M Davenport 2015
Submitted 31 January 2015