Rose Gentle

Rose Gentle
NationalityScottish
OccupationAnti-war campaigner
Years active2004–present
Known forMilitary Families Against the War
Political partyIndependent
AwardsHonorary Degree, University of Glasgow

Rose Gentle is the mother of Gordon Gentle, a 19-year-old from Pollok who was killed in 2004 by a roadside bomb in Basra during the Iraq War. Since his death she has campaigned against the war and set up the Justice 4 Gordon Gentle campaign. Alongside Reg Keys she is a founder member of Military Families Against the War. She has been a long term critic of Tony Blair's role in the Iraq War.

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