Name
Arthur William Rose
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12005
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Q.346 (Screen Wall)
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Kimpton Village Memorial, Not on the Welwyn Village memorials
Pre War
Arthur William Rose was born in 1893 in Plumstead, London, the son and youngest child of James and Martha Rose (nee Lawley) and one of eight children. He was baptised on 9 August 1893 at St John the Baptist Church, Plumstead, when the family lived at 23 Charlotte Street.
On the 1901 Census the family were still living at 23 Charlotte Street where his father was working as a General Labourer. His father died in 1905 and by the 1911 Census Arthur was living at the home of his aunt and uncle, James and Rhoda Luckhurst, at 50 Chancelot Road, Abbey Wood, Kent with his widowed mother and two sisters and working as a printer.
He was said to be living in Welwyn when he enlisted and on pension records his mother gave her address as Kimpton Vicarage, Welwyn.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in September 1914 in London and joined the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, serving in France from 1 June 1915.
He was wounded in action and repatriated to UK for treatment, but died of his wounds on 30 September 1915, aged 22, in a Manchester hospital (N.B. In WWI Manchester had more than 30 war hospitals). He is buried in Manchester Southern Cemetery, United Kingdom. Many of those buried in the cemetery died in those hospitals. The graves are not marked individually, and the screen wall gives the names of those buried there.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 10s and pay owing of £3 8s 5d. No pension appears to have been paid to her, although she was awarded an unknown amount of gratuity on 29 November 1916.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
