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Lt. John Rogers D.C.M.
British Army Gordon Highlanders
from:685 Garscube Rd., Glasgow
(d.13th June 1918)
My Great Grandfather, John Rogers D.C.M./Gordon Highlanders 1895-1918 died at the 1st Scottish General Hospital, Aberdeen on the 13th June 1918 of "Cut throat Haemorrhage shock". We believe he was assaulted in Callander possibly a week before. We have tried police and court records but have had no success. Nothing was recorded as far as we know. The Hon. Curator of the Tayside Police Museum believes the the Army would have conducted their own investigations but the Police Sergeant stationed at Callander would certainly have had knowledge of the assault. I have contacted the Scottish National Archives and been to the National Archives, Kew but again had no success. Would anybody have any ideas where I could collect information regarding the assault and his hospital record?
Pte. John Rogers
British Army 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:34 Luke Street, Liverpool.
(d.9th Mar 1917)
Pte John Rogers served with the South Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 9th March 1917 and is buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, in Bailleul, France
The 2nd Battalion was a Regular Battalion which had landed at Havre on 14th august 1914 as part of the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division but on 18th October 1915 was transferred to the 7th Brigade of the 25th Division and then on the 26th October 1915 to the 75th Brigade in the same Division. The 25th Division had been continuously in action on the Somme from 5th July to 22nd November 1916. On the 31st October 1916 Divisional Headquarters moved to Bailleul and the Division assumed responsibility for the Ploegsteert Sector with a frontage of about 6,000 yards from the River Lys to Hill 63, to the North of Ploegsteert Wood.
Private Rodgers was serving with the Battalion actually in the trenches in 1917 when he left his colleagues. The Courts Martial was on 5th March 1917 and he was shot at 6 a.m. on 9th March. He was married and his wife Harriett Rogers lived at 34 Luke Street, Liverpool.
Pte. John Rogers
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
John Rogers was wounded in the left thigh, he was evacuated on the 5th of July 1916
Cpl. John William Rogers
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th DLI , 19DLI 10 & 15 DLI
Pte. John Rogers
British Army 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Middlesbrough
(d.9th October 1916)
John Rogers enlisted in September 1914 when he was 19 years old. He was wounded by a gun shot to the chest on the 7th of October 1916, during The Battle of The Somme. He died from his wounds on 9th of October 1916. He is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, close to the village of Albert in France.
His mother asked that his cigarette case with his initials engraved on it, be sent to her, if it was ever found. It is not known whether it was ever recovered.
Lt. Sheffield Digby Kissane Rogers
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:London
(d.14th June 1915)
I have no history of my Great Uncle Sheffield Rogers, other than that he died whilst on reconnaissance before the Battle of Belwaarde. His name is inscribed on the Menin Gate.
Pte. Thomas Richard Rogers
British Army 14th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Acomb, York
(d.1st Aug 1916)
Thomas Rogers was my great uncle and came from Cardiff to join his brother in York. The 1911 Census states Thomas was living at 141 Monkton Terrace York with his brother Christopher and family and was employed as a Railway Labourer. Born in 1885, the son of Mr. J. and Mrs. C. Rogers, of 18, Salisbury Rd., Cathays, Cardiff he was the husband of Maggie Rogers, of The Green, Acomb, York. He served with the 14th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and died of his wounds aged 26 on 1st August 1916.
An Extract from the South Wales Daily news reads as follows: Soldier and Vocalist: News has reached Cardiff of the death from wounds of Pte T.R.Rogers of the Northumberland Fusiliers, a Cardiff boy He went to York about ten years ago where he was employed as an Electrician. He joined the Army about eight months ago and married a month later. He was a vocalist of considerable attainment and while in Cardiff was a member of the Canton Male Voice Choir.
Pte. Thomas Richard Rogers
British Army 14th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:York
(d.1st Aug 1916)
Pte. Thomas Rogers
British Army 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Kearsley
My Great Granddad, Thomas Rogers served in WW1 with the 16th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. I know nothing of his service history but he was killed on 3rd of April 1918 and is buried in Quesnoy Farm Military Cemetery, France.
Pte. Walter Rogers
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Bishop Auckland
(d.16th Dec 1914)
Pte Rogers was killed during the Bombardment of the Hartlepools He was born in Bishop Auckland in 1889.
Bishop Auckland had never seen anything like it. The unpolished oak coffin, wrapped in a Union flag, led a procession more than a mile long through the streets to the cemetery. There were so many wreaths and floral tributes that they couldnt all fit in the funeral coach and so some had to be carried by the hundreds of soldiers behind the coffin. Thousands of people lined the route, no doubt bowing their heads as the coffin passed and the Durham Light Infantry band played Handel’s sombre Dead March. This, on Monday, December 21, 1914, was Bishop Auckland’s first taste of the horrors of the First World War. The victim was Private Walter Rogers, 25, who, five days earlier, had been among the first people to die on home soil during the war. On December 16, 1914, three German warships had unexpectedly opened fire from a mile out on Hartlepool. The flagship battle cruiser Seydlitz fired the first shells at the Heugh battery on the Headland, which was guarded by members of the 18th (Service) Battalion of the DLI. They were volunteers who had responded to the call by Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, to form “pals” regiments – groups of friends who all joined up together. For the previous six weeks, the County Durham Pals had been billeted at West Hartlepool for training purposes, and this was their first, terrifying experience of war. Five Durham Pals died in the bombardment, earning them an unwanted place in British history. Corporal Alix Liddle, of Darlington, was one of the first to go down, and Pte Rogers rushed to his aid. He was killed while in the act of covering up Cpl Liddle, who was cut up with one of the first shells, said the Northern Despatch newspaper. Pte Rogers received the full force of another splinter from a shell in the chest, but he lingered for three hours. Pte Rogers’ obituaries say that at the time of his death, he was acting chief clerk at Lingford’s famous baking powder factory in the town. He was a member of the local photographic society, hockey club, golf club, Cockton Hill Tennis Club, the Civilian Rifle Club and St Peters Church choir. All organisations sent wreaths for the coffin and members for the procession which, said the Despatch, was “at least a mile in length”. In the cemetery, the service was conducted by the Rev A E Douglas, formerly vicar of St Peters, and at the conclusion, the Last Post was sounded and a volley fired over the grave. So Bishop Auckland laid to rest its first victim of the Great War. - Northern Echo
Capt. William Wendell Rogers MC.
Royal Flying Corps 1 Sqd.
from:Alberton, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Gnr. William James Rogers
British Army 11th Mountain Howitzer Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Pangbourne, Oxfordshire
William Rogers was born in 1900 so Will likely lied about his age to join up. His Battery was posted to Egypt in 1917. Very little more is known at this time. Following the war, William returned to his home village of Pangbourne, Oxfordshire and worked as a bricklayer. He married and had 4 daughters.
Sgt. Charles Rogerson
British Army 13th Btn. Yorks and Lancaster Regiment
from:Grimethorpe
Charles Rogerson served with the 13th Btn. Yorks and Lancs and later in the Royal Flying Corps
Capt. W. E. Rogerson
Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Capt. William Rogerson
Royal Army Medical Corps att. 8th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Melbourne, Australia
(d.27th Aug 1918)
William Rogerson is one of the surgeons listed in the book "Lord Kitchener's 100 Surgeons in World War 1", which details 100 doctors from Australia who answered Lord Kitchener's call in early 1915 to join the British Army urgently. He is noted in the 56th Field Ambulance and 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment diaries on 27th August 1918: "The night was quiet with bright moonlight. Patrols were sent out in front along the lines at Bernafay Wood, Longueval Rd and Trones Wood but had difficulty moving forward because they were under machine gun fire and failed to locate any posts as none appeared to have been established in this area. During this time, three of the enemy strayed into our lines and were taken prisoner by the Medical Officer." It is not known how he was killed - enemy or friendly fire? by the prisoners?
Pte. William Rogerson
British Army 25th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.1st July 1916)
Private William Rogerson of the 25th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers was my great uncle and died on 1st July 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was brought up in South Tottenham, London and moved to Nottinghamshire (from where the family had originated) to work on a farm for a cousin. Together with another great uncle (on the other side of the family), William Rogerson is on the Church War Memorial in Lambley, Nottinghamshire and his name is read out together with the casualties of both wars on Remembrance Sunday. I am now 70 and remember my pride as a child. When I can I attend the Remembrance Service. I have visited the grave of one uncle and also the war memorials. William's brother Charles was in the Middlesex Regiment and died on 12th April 1918.
Pte. Soloman S. Roker
British West Indies Regiment Bahamas Contingent
(d.8th June 1918)
Private Roker is remembered on the Nassau Memorial in the Bahamas.
The Nassau Memorial commemorates Commonwealth servicemen of both World Wars who lie buried in cemeteries or churchyards, but whose graves have become impossible to maintain.
Pte. Albert Edward Roles
British Army 14th Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Portsmouth
(d.16th September 1917)
Pte. Albert Edward Rolfe
British Army 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Custom House
(d.26th August 1918)
Pte. Edward Fredrick Rolfe MID
Royal Scots Fusiliers 7th Btn.
from:Reading Berkshire
Private Edward Fredrick Rolfe served with 7th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, which was amalgamated to the 6th Battalion.He was mentioned in despatches
Pte. Frederick William Rolfe
British Army 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:8 Grove Terrace, Godmanchetser, Huntingdon
(d.31st July 1917)
Frederick Rolfe fell at the Battle of Pilkem, on the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres. He appears to have no relatives remaining in the area and we would love to know more about him, especially how he came to be in an Irish regiment. We are researching all the men of Godmanchester who died during the Great War.
Pte. James Herbert Rolfe
British Army 6th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Acton, London
(d.30th December 1917)
James Rolfe was born in Acton in 1892, youngest of six children born to Henry and Alice Rolfe. The 1911 census shows him working as a newsagent. He served with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. On the 17th December 1917 HMT Aragon (troopship) carrying around 2,700 troops bound for the conflicts in Palestine, left Marseilles in convoy on course for Alexandria. On the 30 December she lay up ten miles off shore, awaiting her escort as the rest of the convoy sailed in to the Port of Alexandria. As she waited within sight of land she was torpedoed by the German Submarine and minelayer the UC-34. The destroyer HMS Attack and every available ship within reach came to her rescue as she sank within 15 minutes. Many of the men rescued and taken onto the HMS Attack had just stripped their oil drenched clothes from their bodies and laid on the deck when she too was torpedoed by the same submarine, almost blowing her in two. James, aged 25 years, was amongst the 610 of the 2,700 passengers on board the HMT Aragon who were killed. His body was not recovered and he is commemorated on the Chatby Memorial in Alexandria. He is also remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Pte. Thomas Rolfe
British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment
from:Oldham, Lancashire
Thomas Rolfe was born in Wigan, near Leigh, Lancashire. He was living in Oldham when World War I broke out, and he was 18 years old when he enlisted. He was in the 1st Battalion of the Border Regiment which was part of the 29th Division which fought at Gallipoli, and then on the Western Front.
He survived the war and then married Alice Ann Shaw in the St. Marks church in Heyside outside of Oldham. He and Alice immigrated to Canada in 1920 and homesteaded near Waseca, Saskatchewan. The family later moved to Creston, BC and finally to Vancouver, BC.
In WWII, Thomas joined the Canadian Army and did a variety of things including escorting German prisoners to Camp Seebe in Kananaskis, Alberta. After the war, Thomas continued his career in the Canadian Military until his retirement. He died in 1991 at the age of 94.
Pte. George Edward Rolingson
British Army 2nd Btn., D Coy. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Diss, Norfolk
(d.16th Aug 1917)
George Rolingson was my uncle, my mother's older brother. My mother (aged 6) recalled seeing him off from Diss station after coming home on leave, and holding her in his arms telling her he would not be coming back this time. He died at Passchendaele on 16th August 1917 aged 22. I like to think he is buried in Whitehall as he has no grave.
Pte. Mark Welch Rollason
British Army 1st Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Coventry
(d.23rd Oct 1916)
Mark Welch Rollason of 1st Btn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment was killed in action on 23rd October 1916. He was my paternal great grandfather of whom I know little about. Sadly he died on the same day as his daughter Elsie gave birth to his grandson, who was named after him. If anyone has any information about the family please get in touch.
Act.Bdr. Francis Alan Rollins
British Army "D" Bty. 23rd Bde Royal Field Artillery
from:Stotfold, Bedfordshire
(d.14th Apr 1917)
Acting Bombardier Francis Alan Rollins, my Great Uncle, was serving with the Royal Field Artillery in France. He was killed in the Battle of Arras on April 14th 1917 aged 20. I have visited his grave in Athies Communal Cemetary Extension. He was from a little village in Bedfordshire and was one of six. Sadly his own Father passed away the same year before he was killed.
Pte Frederick John Rollins
British Army 7th (Service) Btn East Surrey Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.13th October 1915)
John Seals Rollo
Army
from:Aberdeen, Scotland
My Grandfather, John Seals Rollo served during WW1, I am trying to get more information about him.
Pte. William Rolls
British Army 5th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Wantage Berks
(d.16th Oct 1916)
Gnr. Archibald John Romain
British Army 327th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Urchfont
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