Rose, Solomon (Sol) (1916 - 2002)

Summary

Sol Rose was mentioned in dispatches while serving as a medical officer in the Australian Imperial Forces. He was invalided home and later declared totally and permanently incapacitated. As he regained health Rose began work with the Repatriation Department He continued to work for the Department for over thirty years, becoming medical superintendent of the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in 1978.

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Chronology

1935 - 1939

Military service - Voluntary Rifles

1940 - 1945

Military service - Second World War. Captain, Resident Medical Officer, 2/15 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, in the Middle East and South West Pacific Area

1953 - 1980s

Career position - Worked for the Repatriation Department, later the Department of Veterans' Affairs

1963 - 1968

Career position - Senior Medical Officer (appeals) in the Central Office of the Repatriation Department

1968 - 1978

Career position - Deputy Director (medical services) of the Victorian Branch of the Repatriation Department

1970 - 1978

Career position - Federal Councillor and Vice-President of the Second Division Officers Association

1978 - 1981

Career position - Medical Superintendent at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital

1987 - 1997

Career position - President of the Victorian Association of Jewish Ex-Service Men and Women

2002

Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) - for service to veterans and their families through the Victorian Association for Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women and as Director of the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

• Oberman, Sonya, 'Obituary: Dr Sol Rose, OAM, a community spirit', The Age (2002). Details

Resources

• 'Rose, Solomon (19160502-20020214)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476381. Details