Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Evelyn Jack Rose

Remembering Evelyn Jack Rose of St John’s College

Born: Unknown.

Died: 4th October 1917 in Ypres, Belgium. Killed in action, aged 23.

Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Evelyn Jack Rose was a student King’s College before enrolling at St John’s Theological College where he studied between 1913 and 1915. He was enrolled at Auckland University College.

Enlisting into the war in 1916, he rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant before being killed in Ypres, Belgium. At the time was stationed with the Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1^st Battalion, 6^th Regiment.

100th Anniversary Display Note

To mark the 100^th anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli an exhibition was held at the John Kinder Theological Library displaying books and archives, as well as biographies of the St John’s Theological College students who served and were killed during World War One.  

These biographies will be posted on this blog over the next week including some significant discoveries we have made while researching these students.