A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign

Three: Lance-Corporal C. S. Rose, Suffolk Regiment, who died of wounds at Gallipoli on 13 August 1915

1914-15 Star (221 L. Cpl. C. S. Rose. Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (221 Pte. C. S. Rose. Suff. R.) minor contact marks, very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign.

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Charles Shenley Rose was born at Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, in 1888, and attested at Eye for the Suffolk Regiment. Posted to the 1/5th Battalion, he disembarked at Suvla Bay on 10 August 1915 and was present during the disastrous attack on Turkish positions on 12 August 1915 - the same action in which the Sandringham Company of the Norfolk Regiment effectively ‘vanished’. Rose died of wounds the following day after barely 72 hours on the peninsula; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.