Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Forrester Rose KCB DSO (7 February 1878 – 3 March 1955) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be commander-in-chief of East Indies Station.
Early life and education
Rose was born in Sicily, the son of British parents William Rose, a merchant, and Martha Gardner.UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths From British Consulates, 1810–1968 He was educated at Stubbington House School in Fareham and on HMS Britannia.
Naval career Rose served in World War I initially as commander of HMS Laurel taking part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914.Destroyers engaging the German Cruiser Mainz, 28 August 1914 Promoted to rear admiral in 1929, he was appointed rear admiral commanding the destroyer flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1931 and then became commander-in-chief of East Indies Station in 1934Whitaker's Almanack 1936 before being replaced due to illness in 1936.East Indies Commander Ill The West Australian, 15 May 1936
Personal life He initially married Freda Edith Gordon, daughter of Walter Alwynne Gordon. They had one son, Hugh William Mackenzie Rose, who died aboard HMS Cossack in 1941. In 1923, Sir Frank Forrester Rose remarried to Dorothy Maud Kay.
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