Name
Amos Rogers
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1914
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7903
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTE-DE-PARIS CEMETERY, CAMBRAI
I. A. 37.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware, Not on the Furneux Pelham memorials, Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Amos Rogers was born in 1878 in Furneux Pelham, Herts to Ambrose and Jessie (Warwick) Rogers and was baptised there on 7 July 1878.
On the 1891 Census he was living at Barley Croft End, near Furneux Pelham. Amos was 14 and working as a farm labourer with his father and elder brother. He married Eliza Williams in 1908 in Ware. On the 1911 Census he was a horsekeeper and living at Priors Wood, Widbury, Nr Ware, Herts. He was said to have been married 3 years, but his wife was not listed there.
Recorded as born in Furneux Pelham and living in Bishop's Stortford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Bishop’s Stortford and served in the 1st Btn, Bedfordshire Regiment. He was in France from 16 Aug 1914 and died at Notre Dame de Grace, Cambrai whilst a prisoner of war.
Additional Information
Mrs A Rogers (his widow?), 29 Trinity Street, Bishop's Stortford, ordered his headstone inscription: "REST IN PEACE". His widow received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £2 6s. She also received a pension of 10 shillings a week from 5 July 1915, which stopped when she remarried on 28 December 1915 to Frederick Ball.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox
