Name
Gustaf Oscar Roos
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
47
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
York and Lancaster Regiment
14th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
III. D. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 21 Aug 1868 in London, son of Gustaf and Annie Roos of 7 Queen's Gate Terrace, London. Educated at the United Services College 1880-82, Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford (MA, BCL). He worked as an attorney in Durban, South Africa and returned to England on 30 Jun 1915.
Wartime Service
Served in the South African Campaign. Killed in action at the head of his company in th German trenches.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
