Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas Henry Rose, a painter, born 1867 in Old Bilton, Warwks., and his wife Charlotte Lucy Rose, born 1869 in Lutterworth, Leics. John Albert Frank was born in the 4th quarter of 1898 in Leicester, his siblings were, Charlotte Alice Bannister, born 1894 and Thomas William Edwin, born in the 2nd quarter of 1896, both his siblings were born in Leicester, in March 1901 the family home was at 140, Knighton, Lane, Leicester. In April 1911 John was a schoolboy and was residing in the family home at 1, Limes Avenue, Melton Mowbray, Leics., together with his father, a foreman painter, his mother and siblings, Charlotte, a milliner, Thomas, a grocer’s errand boy, Ethel Victoria, a schoolgirl, born 1902 and Hilda Lucy, a schoolgirl, born 1904, the latter two siblings were both born in Leicester. He died of wounds he received at Arras, France. His elder brother Thomas William Edwin also died.