Bernard B. Rose
Bernard B. Rose
Rank: Private, U.S. Army
Serial: 42110054
Unit: 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died: , Germany
Burial: Crescent Burial Park, Route 130 & Union Avenue, Pennsauken, NJ
Awards: Purple Heart
Biography
Private Bernard B. Rose was the son of Frank and Yetta Rose, and was born in Pennsylvania in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Rose were both Jewish immigrants from what was then Russia, and now present-day Lithuania. The elder Rose was a salesman in a grocery store. By 1925 the Rose family had moved to 901 Walnut Street in Camden, NJ. Bernard Rose graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, NJ in 1938, where he played soccer and baseball. He was a member of the Pi Alpha Psi fraternity, along with graduating classmate Leonard Auslander. In 1930 the family included older sister Anna, and younger sister Marcella C. Rose and brother Solomon Rose.
After completing his education Bernard Rose found work at the RCA-Victor plant in Camden. He had married Thelma Supnick. Bernard and Thelma Rose made their home at 207 Morse Street in East Camden. He was inducted into the United States Army on March 27, 1944, and was sent overseas in September of that year.
Private Rose was assigned to the 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, as a replacement. The 2nd Battalion of the 120th had been surrounded at Mortain in August, and had suffered many casualties before being relieved by elements of the 35th Infantry Division.
Private Rose took part in the 30th Infantry Division’s September 1944 offensive near Tournai and Brussels, Belgium. In mid-September after the Albert Canal and the Meuse River were crossed, the 30th took objectives near Horbach, Germany and completed plans for the assault on the Siegfried Line. This attack opened on October 2, 1944 and a breach was made the following day. Contact with the 1st Infantry Division was made on October 16, 1944, and encirclement of Aachen was completed. The 30th then continued on their offensive into Germany. It was in Germany where Private Bernard Rose was killed during this action on December 15, 1944, while serving with the 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division. He was 24 years old.
Private Rose was brought home after the war and was buried at Crescent Burial Park in Pennsauken, NJ in the spring of 1949. Woodrow Wilson High School and the Pi Alpha Psi fraternity sponsored an oratorical contest in honor of Bernard Rose and Leonard Auslander, who also died while serving in the Army during World War II.
Bernard B. Rose — Woodrow Wilson High School 1938
Bernard B. Rose — Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook, 1938.
3 So. Jersey Men Killed in Action
Camden Courier-Post — 1945
3 So. Jersey Men Killed in Action
Three Other Soldiers Missing; Five From Area Listed as Wounded
A Camden soldier was one of three South Jersey men today reported killed in action, three are missing and five others from this area are listed as wounded. In all cases, next of kin have previously been notified and have been kept informed of any change in status.
Killed: Pvt. Bernard B. Rose, 24, of 207 Morse street. Cpl. Raymond H. Binder, 21, of 21 Parkview avenue, Westville. Pfc. John Eck, 18, of 916 Columbia avenue, Palmyra.
Wife Gets Telegram
Private Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rose, of 901 Walnut street, was killed in action in Germany on Dec. 15, according to a War Department telegram received Wednesday by his wife, Thelma, of the Morse street address. Rose entered service last March 27. He was sent overseas in September. Rose was graduated from Woodrow Wilson High in 1938. He played soccer and baseball at school. Before induction Rose was employed at the RCA.
Rites Set Sunday For Private Rose
Camden Courier-Post —
Pvt. Bernard B. Rose, an infantry rifleman, who was killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge, Dec. 15, 1944, will be buried at Crescent Burial Park, Route 25, Sunday, at 1 p.m. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rose, of 901 Walnut street, have invited friends and relatives to the funeral services and burial. Rabbi Naftoli Riff, of Congregation Sons of Israel, will officiate. The Jewish War Veterans and American Legion will participate.
Private Rose, who was 24 when he was killed, enlisted in March, 1944. He was in the 120th Infantry of the 30th Division, which was one of the units rushed into the Bulge Battle to halt the German advance after the Nazi breakthrough in the Ardennes forest the second week of December.
He was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High school in 1938. He played varsity soccer and baseball at Woodrow Wilson and was a member of Pi Alpha Psi fraternity.
Surviving besides his parents are two sisters, Mrs. Anne Leonard and Mrs. Marcella H. Supnick, and a brother, Sydney, all of Camden.
Spelling Bee Ace Seeks Honors in Oratory Contest
Camden Courier-Post —
The pretty, brown-haired young girl who, as an eighth grade pupil at Hatch Junior High school was runnerup in last spring’s Tri-County Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Courier-Post, will make a new bid for scholastic honors Thursday night. She is Nancy Bergman, now a student at Woodrow Wilson High school, who will be one of the contenders in the Auslander-Rose Memorial Speech Contest at the school.
Cash prizes are offered for the best girl and best boy speakers in the annual oratorical contest sponsored by Pi Alpha Psi fraternity, in memory of two members killed in War II, Leonard Auslander and Bernard Rose, both of the class of 1938 at Wilson.
Others who will vie for the speech awards, which are presented at the commencement exercises in June, will be Alan Waronker, Jerald Ringold, John Miller, Harriet Newman, Marcia Israel and Mary Chipman. A piano solo by Gloria Thomson, a soprano solo by Bernice McBurney and an organ solo by George Buell will furnish the musical portion of the program, at which Miss Jean C. Welsh, sponsor of the school speech club, will officiate.
Judges of the contest will be Mrs. William Johnson, president of the Camden branch of the American University Women, Miss Edna Ziegler, of the Florence school faculty, and M. G. Messinger, principal of the Veterans Memorial Junior High school.