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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Harry Rose was the son of Samuel and Fanny Rose of 3 Mount Street, Spring Hill, Halesowen, and he attended Hasbury C of E School. He enlisted in the artillery and went as a driver to 68 Brigade Royal Field Artillery which served in the Salonika campaign and was then transferred to Palestine. After the fall of Jerusalem the fighting in Palestine was nearly over but British forces remained to provide government in this former Turkish province. Possibly of sickness, Driver Harry Rose died on the 28th November 1918 after the armistice with Turkey. He was 21 years of age and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery (XIX F 4) and commemorated on the Halesowen and Hasbury C of E School Memorials.
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