Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Ernest Anthony Rose
Ancestor's date of birth: 1877
Ancestor's date of death: 1951
Cause of Death: Age Related
Service Number: 19
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Singleton
Unit: NSW Lancers
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT (Farrier), Date Effective: Prior to April 1899
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Cannot locate record of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 10
Contingent: First New South Wales
Ship: Nineveh, Date of Sailing: 10/10/1999 (from the UK)
Memorial details: Maitland Boer War Memorial, New South Wales Lancers' Memorial Museum, Parramatta NSW
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: On the way back from Aldershot Training in the UK with the NSW Lancers, he went to the Boer War in South Africa.
Details of service in war: From November 1899 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal; including Colesberg, Praadeberg and relief of Kimberley (February 1900). He was wounded at Witkraus en route to Ermelo on 14 September 1900. He was invalided to Australia on the 17 February 1901.
Service and life after the Boer War: Ernest Rose had 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls - 2 sons and one daughter survive today. My (Commodore Rose's) father Athol Lloyd Rose was his first born son and I am Athol's first born son. Ernest's wife was Marion Rose. My Grandfather was their son Leeson Ernest Rose who married Barbara Lee they also had 6 children. I am the eldest grandchild of Leeson Ernest Rose and Barbara Rose.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Commodore Geoffery A Rose AM RAN Retd, Tuross Head NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Ellen Rose Ennever, Lower Longley TAS
Relationship to Ancestor: Youngest granddaughter
