Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookbrother, Sydney, Leading Seaman, Nelson Battn. R.N.D., was severely wounded at Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915. [Illustration: =Philip Rossiter.=] =ROSSON, WILLIAM HAROLD=, Private, No. 3782, 9th, attd. 1/7th, Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Joseph Rosson, of The Cottage, Kestrel Grove, Bushey Heath, Butler to Mr. W. B. Gair, of Kestrel Grove, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John Cato, of Kirtlington, near Oxford; _b._ Bushey Heath, 14 Nov. 1896; educ. Stanmore, Middlesex; was a Groom; joined 9th Middlesex, 8 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1/7th Battn. and left for France, 13 March, 1915, and died at Merville Hospital, 18 June, 1915, of wounds received on the 15th. Buried in Military Cemetery, Merville; _unm._ His Company Commander, Capt. I. M. Cossar, wrote: "he was seriously wounded on the 15th of this month, as we were coming into the trenches. The Germans turned a machine-gun over the ground behind the trenches for some long distance back, and caught the company, wounding two of my best men. Your son received a bullet wound in his back, injuring the spinal column. He was at once taken to the dressing station where a motor was waiting to take him to Merville Hospital. His wound was very serious." [Illustration: =William Harold Rosson.=] =ROSTRON, JOHN=, Private, No. 6/928, D Westland Coy., Canterbury Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force; _b._ about 1872; educ. Peel School, Little Hulton; was for some time in the mechanic's shop at Lord Ellesmere's Wharton Hall Colliery; went to New Zealand in 1903, and took up work in the coal pit at Ronango; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canterbury Infantry Regt.; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915. He _m._ at Peel Church, Little Hulton, 20 Feb. 1901, Clara, dau. of Thomas Boardman, and had a dau., Ethel (63, Manchester Road West, Bottom Lane, Little Hulton), _b._ 4 April, 1902. =DE ROUGEMONT, MAURICE HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt., only _s._ of Arthur Francis de Rougemont, of 5, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Janet Emma, dau. of Henry Goodenough Hayter, of Winterbourne, Sidmouth, South Devon; _b._ Westbourne Gardens, London, W., 13 June, 1889; educ. Charterhouse (Gown boys), 1903-07, and Lausanne, 1908; was at Lloyd's; joined the Artists' Rifles, 1909; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France as Sergt. in the 1st Battn. Oct. 1914, and, after passing through the School of Instruction at Bailleul, received a commission in the 2nd Queen's Royal West Surreys, 27 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 16 May, 1915. According to the statement made by his servant they and two other men got separated from the rest of the Coy., and after attending to some of our wounded in the trench near which they found themselves, they came across another Coy. of the Queen's, which had lost all its officers. It was whilst leading his own men and this Coy. that he was shot, as they were climbing the parapet of a German trench; _unm._ Buried near Festubert. An officer wrote, "He was an excellent officer, and very much liked by his men. His loss is a great trouble to them"; and another: "If there is one thing that can help you in your loss, it will be knowing that he died doing his duty like a man, and leading his platoon over the German trenches. He was shot when on the top of the parapet." [Illustration: =Maurice H. de Rougemont.=] =ROURKE, THOMAS=, A.B., No. 234175, 1st Class Gunner, H.M.S. Tiger, only _s._ of the late Edward Rourke, by his wife, Lucy (5, Stand Street, London Road, Manchester), dau. of Dennis Kennedy; _b._ Ashton-under-Lyne, 11 April, 1890; educ. St. Michael's School, George Lee Street, Ancoates; entered the Navy about 1906 and was killed in action in the North Sea, 24 Jan. 1915; _unm._ =ROUST, JOSIAH ROBERT=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 307023, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =ROUTH, HAROLD=, Rifleman, No. 1959, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John Routh, of 189, Rosebury Avenue, E.C.; _b._ Birmingham, 28 Aug. 1897; educ. there and L.C.C. School; joined The Rangers in May, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. following; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died in the General Hospital, Boulogne, 2 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Hill 60, on 27 April. Buried at Boulogne. He was the youngest in the regt. =ROW, HARRY AKERS=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. The Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of William Benjamin Row, of North Lodge, Saxmundham, Corn, Seed and Coal Merchant, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Woodward, of Old Newton, Suffolk; _b._ Saxmundham, co. Suffolk, 22 March, 1886; educ. Ipswich Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4th Suffolks, 29 May, 1913, and was in command of the half company of Territorials in Saxmundham; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 Nov., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; _unm._ Col. H. W. Crinddas wrote: "As commanding officer of your son's regt. I am writing to offer you and your family my sincerest sympathy in this great loss. It may be some consolation to you to know that he died well, at the head of his men, leading them most gallantly in the face of a murderous fire. I saw him shortly after he was killed lying in a trench, shot through the head. His end must have been quite instantaneous; so it will be a relief to you to know that he died without pain, just passing from life to death without knowing it. He was buried to-day at Vielle Chapelle. I have not been long with this regt., but quite long enough to appreciate your son's work at its true value, and I feel that by his early (though glorious) death I have lost a most valuable officer and good friend." He was a keen sportsman, and particularly fond of shooting and fishing. [Illustration: =Harry Akers Row.=] =ROW, JAMES EDWARD=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 1012, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =ROWAN, ANDREW PERCIVAL=, Capt., 10th Battn. (Western Australia) Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Andrew Rowan, of Arranmore. St. Kilda, Melbourne, and St. Hubert's Vineyard, Victoria; _b._ Melbourne, 31 Aug. 1876; educ. Queen's College, St. Kilda, and Melbourne Grammar School; served as a Lieut. in the Australian Force in the South African War, 1901-02; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, and received the Queen's medal with three clasps. He was appointed Lieut., Australian Field Artillery, in July, 1903, but retired in 1910 and joined the Reserve of Officers. He then went to Western Australia and took up farming at Murgarrin, and on the outbreak of t |