ROSE, Eli
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | New South Wales Naval Contingent |
| Born: | Patricks Plains, New South Wales, Australia, 14 April 1864 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Employee of Harbors and Rivers Department. |
| Died: | Pleurisy, Peking, 6 January 1901, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Boxer Rebellion (China) Service
| 1 Mar 1900: | Involvement Able Seaman | |
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| 8 Aug 1900: | Embarked New South Wales Naval Contingent, SS Salamis |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Maurice Kissane
Elijah Rose was known as Eli Rose. He was the fourth child born to Henry and Sarah Rose (nee Perkins). Eli arrived in 1864. He would have eleven siblings before his father Henry died in 1883. Eli went to Newcastle. He enjoyed nautical things and lived close to the Pacific in Merewether. He worked in the Harbours and Rivers Department. Eli supplemented his public service as a member of the Newcastle Naval Brigade. He is described in his obituary as an old naval man who was popular with his comrades. His common law wife is not identfied. However, the Naval Brigade Surgeon had to break the news of his death to his widow. AB Eli Rose was buried with full naval honours in what was then the British Cemetery in Peking on 8 January 1902. His funeral was a large one. His coffin was placed on a gun carriage according to family records, as per link. The British Cemetery in Peking was desecrated by Boxers during the Boxer Rebellion. It was restored by the British but desecrated again by the Red Guards in 1966, as per link.
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