author
Geoffrey Keith Rose
b. 1889
A First World War officer, illustrator, and chronicler of battalion life, he wrote with the immediacy of someone who had lived the campaign he described. His best-known book brings the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry vividly to life.
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The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
by Geoffrey Keith Rose
About the author
Born in 1889, Geoffrey Keith Rose was a British Army officer who served with the 2/4th Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the First World War. Records linked by the Imperial War Museum list him as a law student in Oxford in 1911, later a major in the battalion, and a recipient of the Military Cross.
Rose is best known for The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, published in 1920. The book was written from close experience and was illustrated by Rose himself, which helps give it the feel of both a military history and a personal record of service.
He died in 1959 in Henley, Oxfordshire. Although not a widely known literary figure, his work remains a valuable firsthand account for readers interested in World War I, regimental history, and the everyday realities behind official war narratives.