PVT Albert Charles Rose

PVT Albert Charles Rose was born 11 Feb 1925 in South Windsor, Connecticut. He was the only child of Albert Edward and Ruby Mabel (Shippee) Rose. His father worked on a local tobacco farm and later as a watchman for the New York New Hampshire Railroad.

Albert was drafted in June 1943 and after his basic military training was sent to England and assigned to B Company 116th Infantry. PVT Rose would have participated in the final preparations for the anticipated amphibious assault on occupied France. On 6 Jun 1944, B Company, including PVT Rose landed on Omaha Beach immediately following A Company and like A Company suffered numerous casualties. PVT Rose survived that to fight inland in the breakout from the beach but he was killed in action on 7 Jun 1944.

PVT Rose was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred with family in the New Wapping Cemetery in South Windsor, Connecticut.

Father Albert Edward Rose is known to have served in the U.S. Army at what was Camp Devens, Massachusetts in 1918.