Robert Henry Hose

  General Notes:

Robert was born in 1887 and educated at Forest School. On leaving school he joined the firm of John Gibbs and Son and Smith and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1910.
Early in 1915 he joined the Royal Naval Aircraft Corps as a despatch rider. That October he transferred to the 3rd/5th Bedfordshire Regiment in which he was given a commission. He was appointed adjutant the following March and remained with his battalion on East Coast Defence duty until January 1917, when he volunteered for foreign service and joined the 2nd Battalion in France.
Robert arrived with them on the 15th March 1917. Three short days later, he lost his life to a booby trap during the operations against the Hinderburg Line. The Germans had vacated their former trenches and retreated to the Hindenburg Line. As the British advanced to take over the positions on the 18th March, Robert HOSE and Private 21111 Thomas PEARSON of Ilkeston were killed by the same bomb trap.
Robert was buried in the Agny Military cemetery, 5km south-west of the Arras railway station. He was the son of Robert John Hose of Bromley in Kent and left a widow and one son.

Robert married Gertrude Frances Ewer Q2 1911 in Rochford, Essex. (Gertrude Frances Ewer was born Q3 1887 in Wandsworth.)