This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(George Thomas Rosewell)
(Rosewell, George Thomas)
Service no 11194
Serjeant, Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th Battalion
Died age 22 on 16 February 1916
Son of George Thomas and Sarah Rosewell, of 29, Warham St., Kennington Park London; husband of Eleanor Eliza Rosewell, of 9, Camberwell New Rd., London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium and at St Mark's Church, London
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 George Thomas Rosewell was 17 and working as a storekeeper and living with his family at 21 Bolton Street, Kennington. His father, George Thomas Rosewell Sr, 45, was a house decorator. He was born in Shepperton, Middlesex. Sarah Jane Rosewell, also 45, was born in Fovant, Wiltshire, and had had 9 children, 5 of whom survived. The children on the census were
George Thomas, born in "Ossington Buildings, Marylebone, London"
Alice Sarah, 13, also born in Ossington Buildings
Elizabeth Rosewell, 11, born in Peabody Buildings, Russell Square, as were her 2 younger brothers
Bertram Albert Rosewell, 9
James Arthur, 6