Name
Edward Rogers
28/11/1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
62060
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
20th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GROOTEBEEK BRITISH CEMETERY
I. 1.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
FOR EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Edward Rogers was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 28th November 1895, son of Robert J. Rogers a Domestic Gardener and Annie (Ann) Rogers (nee Gosney). One of six children.
Baptised on 14 July 1897, at St Andrews Church, Watford, Herts.
1901 Census record Edward aged 5, living with his parents, brother Robert (9), and three sisters, Ellen (12), Bessie (2) and Lilian ( 3 months) at, Bushey Hall Cottages, Bushey, Herts.
1911 Census records Edward aged 15, employed as a Greengrocer’s Shop Assistant, living with his parents, brother Robert, sisters Bessie and Lilian at, 38, Malden Road, Borehamwood, Herts, his father is now working as a Horseman on a Farm.
Officially recorded as born in Watford and was living in Boreham Wood when he enlisted in Kilburn Middlx.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted at Kilburn, London/Middx, on 12 June 1915, aged 19, posted to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps with the service number 14118 then 48654, joining at Winchester, Hampshire, on 17 June 1915, posted to the 5th Battalion, on 25 June 1915.
His service record indicated he was in France between 29 September and 30 October 1915, then returning to the UK.
He returned to France on 7th July 1918. Was transferred to the Middlesex Regiment, and posted to the 20th Battalion, with the new service number GS/62060, effective from 15 July 1918.
He was killed in action two months later on 28 September 1918, aged 22.
Additional Information
His mother Ann received his effects of £12-5s-11d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £15. His elder brother Robert John Rogers was killed in action on 9 April 1917, aged 25.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
