Christopher Samuel ROSE

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ROSE, Christopher Samuel

Service Number:	5773
Enlisted:	15 January 1916, Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	44th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Quindalup, Western Australia, Australia, 1882
Home Town:	Geraldton, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Contractor
Died:	Killed in action, Belgium, 14 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium
Memorials:	Geraldton District Great War Honour Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

15 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5773, 11th Infantry Battalion, Blackboy Hill, WA
15 Jul 1916:	Involvement Private, 5773, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: ''
15 Jul 1916:	Embarked Private, 5773, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ajana, Fremantle
23 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 44th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of George and Alice ROSE, Balkuling, Western Australia.

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

His younger brother, 6392 Pte. Henry Hawthorn Rose 11th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps, was killed in action six months later on 15 April 1918, aged 26.

A third brother, Vernon Herbert Rose 11th Battalion AIF, returned to Australia during April 1919.

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