Colonel John George (Jack) Rose, DSO

Colonel Jack Rose served in the Anglo Boer War and both World Wars and in all he was responsible for organising the mechanised transport providing invaluable service. In civilian life he was an analytical chemist. He was an outstanding sportsman excelling in rowing and cycling where he represented South Africa internationally in Argentina in c1898. He is purportedly the first South African to represent his country in the green and gold, albeit by default. As his preferable colour, white, was already being used by another country he was forced to shop around for another colour and chose the green and gold. Source: samilitaryhistory.org. Cape Town Branch Newsletter No 400, July 2012. Talk by Mr Derek Stuart Findlay.