Name
Edward Rogers
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/265288
(Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Middlesex Regiment
1st/9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 30 and 64.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Elstree Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Brass Memorial, Elstree
Pre War
Edward was born in 1896 in Elstree to Herbert Freeman Rogers, a saddler, and Alice Emma (nee Joy). Edward had two brothers, Herbert and Cyril and a sister Alice.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in Elstree Village. On the 1911 Edward was an assistant saddler and the family were living at the High Street Elstree.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted in 1/9th Middlesex Regiment at Pound Lane, Willesden as Private 1317 (he became serial number 265288 in the general renumbering of the Territorial Force later in the War). The 1/9th Battalion was a Territorial Force Unit but was soon overseas from Southampton on 8 Oct 1914 bound for India to replace regular Regiments stationed there, Arriving in Bombay on 29 Oct 1914.
Edward went to Mesopotamia on 14 May 1915 on an attachment to 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment. He was part of the besieged garrison at Kut-al-Amara and was taken prisoner of war when the garrison surrendered on 29 Apr 1916. There were reports of Edward at Turkish POW Camps at Adana and Afyonkarahisar, and in his service record reference to him being reported (30 Oct 1918) at Bozanti after the presumption of his death (24 May 1917). His remains not being recovered he is remembered on the Basra Memorial Iraq and also on Elstree Memorials.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £13 and arrears of £20 17s was paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
