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Geoffrey Keith Rose

b. 1889

A British Army officer turned his wartime experience into a detailed regimental history, giving readers a close-up view of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the First World War. His surviving work is valued for its firsthand perspective and careful record of battalion life.

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The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

by Geoffrey Keith Rose

About the author

Geoffrey Keith Rose was a British author born in 1889. The reliable sources I found connect him above all with The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, a history of the battalion written under the name Captain G. K. Rose.

That book was published in 1920 and draws on the experience of the First World War, combining battlefield narrative with the day-to-day reality of military service. The edition trail and library records suggest that this is the work for which he is chiefly remembered.

A memorial record indicates that Rose died in 1959. I was not able to confirm many further personal details from strong biographical sources, so it is safest to remember him primarily as a soldier-author whose book preserves one regiment's wartime story in vivid, direct form.