Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Glageon Communal Cemetery
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After March 1917	~	Kineton
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Died of Gastroenteritis whilst a Prisoner of War	February 1917 at Stratford on Avon
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
Trelon Prisoner of War Camp Hospital	Pte M/299406, R.A.S.C

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Red Cross Records reveal that Denis was originally reported missing in action on 27 May 1918, as can be seen below the Red Cross recorded his unit as being 15th Bn Machine Gun Corps and the CWGC records him as being in the 50th Bn, to add to the confusion Denis's Register of Effects records him as being in the 24th Bn MGC.

A second Red Cross Record written in German roughly translates as Solider of 15th Bn MGC died on 8/18/18 in the prison camp at Trelon as a result of intestinal catarrh [Gastroenteritis] and was buried in the military cemetery at Glageon in grave 146.

In her book "Kineton in the Great War" (published in 1998) Gillian Ashley-Smith writes "Denis Rouse died in a Prisoner of War hospital. It is believed that he was made to carry shells to the German lines, and died in hospital of starvation".

Denis was captured on the first day of the Third Battle of the Aisne (Chemin des Dames) 27 May 1918 to 6 Jun 1918.