Lieutenant-Colonel, Punjab Regiment
Born: February 15th 1907
Died: March 11th 1944
Age at Death: 37
Killed in Burma, March 11th 1944
Gill Scholar
House Prefect 1924
School Prefect 1924
1st 15 1922-1924
Rudolph Fitzroy Reginald Rouse was born on 15 February 1907 in India to Frederic Philip Pierrepoint Rouse and his wife Maud. His father served in the Supply and Transport Corps of the Indian Army, reaching the rank of captain, enabling Rudolf to win a Gill Scholarship to study at the College – this scholarship, funded by the family of William Gill, army officer, explorer, spy and Old Brightonian executed by hostile Bedouins in 1882, was open only to the sons of army officers. Rouse became a School Prefect and played for the 1st Rugby XV.
After leaving the College Rouse joined the British Army, serving in the Royal Artillery, before transferring to the Indian Army as a lieutenant in 1930. By the closing stages of the Second World War he was an acting lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd Punjab Regiment, and had been awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was killed in action fighting the Japanese in Burma on 11 March 1944, leaving a widow, Hilda, and is buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery.