Frank Forrester Rose
{{Short description|Royal Navy officer}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Sir Frank Rose
|birth_date=7 February 1878
|death_date= {{dda|3 March 1955|7 February 1878|df=y}}
|birth_place= Palermo, Sicily, Italy1911 England CensusItaly, Select Births and Baptisms, 1806–1900
|death_place= London, England
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|birth_name=Frank Forrester Rose
|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
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|rank= Vice admiral
|commands=HMS Laurel
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station
|branch=23px Royal Navy
|unit=
|battles=World War I
|awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
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Vice Admiral Sir Frank Forrester Rose KCB DSO (7 February 1878 – 3 March 1955) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be commander-in-chief of East Indies Station.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir Frank Rose |work=The Times |date=5 March 1955 |page= 8}}
Early life and education
Rose was born in Sicily, the son of British parents William Rose, a merchant, and Martha Gardner.UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths From British Consulates, 1810–1968 He was educated at Stubbington House School in Fareham and on HMS Britannia.
Naval career
Rose served in World War I initially as commander of HMS Laurel taking part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914.[http://www.maritimeprints.com/portfolio/?mp=171 Destroyers engaging the German Cruiser Mainz, 28 August 1914] Promoted to rear admiral in 1929,{{London Gazette|issue=33531|page=5716|date=3 September 1929}} he was appointed rear admiral commanding the destroyer flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1931{{Cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/cunninghamabc.php |title=Royal Navy admirals 1904-1945 |access-date=25 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114053926/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/cunninghamabc.php |archive-date=14 November 2007 |url-status=dead }} and then became commander-in-chief of East Indies Station in 1934Whitaker's Almanack 1936 before being replaced due to illness in 1936.[http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/25147611?searchTerm= East Indies Commander Ill] The West Australian, 15 May 1936
Personal life
He initially married Freda Edith Gordon, daughter of Walter Alwynne Gordon. They had one son, Hugh William Mackenzie Rose, who died aboard HMS Cossack in 1941.{{Cite web|title=Wreck Site|url=https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?15974}}{{Cite web|title=Wreck Site|url=https://wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?130615}} In 1923, Sir Frank Forrester Rose remarried to Dorothy Maud Kay.{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page= 2896 |ref=Burke }}
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Category:People educated at Stubbington House School
Category:Royal Navy vice admirals
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Category:Military personnel from Palermo