HOLLIS HAWTIN ROSE was serving as a Private with the 1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment when he was killed in action at Passchendaele on 14th October 1917. He was aged 20, his body was never recovered from the field and he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. 

He was the son of Jane Rose of Swerford, living with his mother and uncle, working as a  farm labourer. He was living in Ibstock, Leicestershire when he joined the Leicestershire Regiment before joining the South Staffords.

Steve Kingsford