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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 221

Six: Colonel C.V.D. Rose, Indian Medical Service, Late Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Air Force, and Royal Artillery, Who Was Wounded on the Western Front During the Great War, and Was Taken Prisoner-of-War at the Fall of Singapore, 15.1.1942, While in Command of the 20th Combined Hospital in Malaya and Singapore
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C.V.D. Rose); India General Service 1908-35, North West Frontier 1935 (Maj. C.V.D. Rose, I.M.S.); 1939-1945 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal, nearly extremely fine, first three mounted as worn (6)

Colonel Charles Vincent Douglas Rose, born Southport, Lancashire, November 1897, and educated at University College, London, where he served in the London Officer Training Corps. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, 10.9.1916; served with the Artillery on the Western Front from 27.12.1916; wounded, June 1917; promoted Lieutenant, 10.3.1918; Commissioned Royal Air Force (Medical Branch) November 1922; transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of Captain, 16.2.1928; served with the Artillery in India 1929-33 (Ferozapore 1931, Razmak 1932); transferred to Indian Medical Service with the rank of Major, 14.2.1933; served on the North West Frontier in the Loe Agra Operations, February to April 1935; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 25.4.1939.
Appointed Officer Commanding 20th Combined General Hospital in Malaya and Singapore, 1940; taken Prisoner-of-War at the Fall of Singapore, 15.1.1942; retired with the rank of Honorary Colonel, 13.8.1948; died, 1.1.1960.

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