Name
Charles John Rogers
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
18218
Royal Garrison Artillery
35th Heavy Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 9
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Bayford & Brickendon Memorial, Bayford, Goff's Oak Village Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
He was born in Cheshunt 9th November 1882, the son of William, a farmer and Louisa and the 1891 census shows him living at Gews Corner, Cheshunt with 6 brothers and sisters. In 1901, the family are now living at St. Lawrences Farm, Hammond Street and Charles is a farm worker.
He married Winifred Rogers in 1910 and had one daughter. In 1911 they were living at Claypits Farm, Bayford, where he worked as a farm labourer. He enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
Went to France 21st August 1914
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Brian Lodge
