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Gnr. Frank Raymond Rogers
British Army 58th H.A.A. Regiment Royal Artillery
(d.5th May 1945)
Frank Rogers was born and grew up in Bathwick in Somerset in 1884.
He learned the hairdressing trade in Bristol and moved to the Staines area where he married Flora Green in 1909 and set up as a hairdresser in Bridge Street Colnbrook. In 1916 when their daughter Dorothy was baptised at St Michael’s, Frank was in the Army. By 1920 when their son Frank Raymond was born Frank had returned to the hairdressing trade.
By the outbreak of WW2 the family had moved to Sutton at Hoo in Kent, still working as a hairdresser. Frank Raymond married Hilda Limon in 1942