ROSE, Richard John
| Service Number: | 205 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Reedbeds, South Australia, 3 July 1878 |
| Home Town: | Windsor, Mallala, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 2 May 1960, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 205, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse | |
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| 26 May 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 205, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, embarked Adelaide for Durban on board St Andrew | |
| 1 Jul 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 205, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, embarked Durban for Port Adelaide on board Manchester Merchant | |
| 9 Aug 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 205, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Trooper Richard John Rose (Service No:205) enlisted in the 3rd Troop (Wallaroo) 8th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse in mid 1901 and embarked from Port Adelaide for Durban on 26 May 1902 on board the St Andrew. Hostilities having ceased, the contingent embarked from Durban for Port Adelaide on 1 July 1902 on board the Manchester Merchant. The contingent was disbanded on 9 August 1902.
Richie (Richard John Loveday) was born in 1878 at Reedbeds via Adelaide in South Australia, sixth of seven children of Robert (Alec) Alexander Rose (b1841 in Banffshire, Scotland) and Ann Loveday (b1842 in Limerick, Ireland). Alec immigrated with his parents and siblings abt 1842 - his father was killed in 1843 near Onkaparinga). Ann arrived in Adelaide in 1847 with her parents and siblings on board the Royal George. Alec (a Farm Worker) and Ann married in Findon, South Australia where they raised their family and Alec was a Farm Worker and Labourer.
Richie worked as a Labourer and with horses at St Vincent's Gulf before enlisting for service in the Boer War. He moved to Western Australia in the mid 1900s, working as a Possum and Kangaroo Shooter at Tambrey Station via Coolgardie in 1906. By 1911 Richie had purchased land in Pingelly WA when he married Phoebe Ann Edwards (b1884 in Devon, England) - Phoebe, a General Servant, immigrated in 1910, arriving in Albany WA on board the SS Rimutaka. Richie and Phoebe settled in Pingelly where Richie was a Farmer. Following Phoebe's death in 1919, their four surviving children were raised in a Church School and Richie remained in Pingelly where he was a Farmer. Richie retired to Perth where he died in 1960.
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