Friday 7 May 2010

14006 Pte Cecil Rose, 8th Bn, Suffolk Regt

14006 Private Cecil Rose of the 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action on the 7th May 1917, one of over five hundred British Army officers and men to die on this day. He was born in Drinkstone, Suffolk, and enlisted at Drinkstone. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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