Name
Walter Rogers
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/05/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15442
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew’s Church Buckland & Chipping Memorial, Buckland
Not on the Buntingford memorials
Pre War
Born in 1896 in Buckland, Herts. son of Tobias and Harriet Rogers and living there in 1901 and 1911 as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
He entered France on 27 Apr 1915. In May 1915 the battalion was in the trenches around Hill 60 near Ypres. There was a heavy gas attack by the enemy followed by fierce fighting in the British trenches. In two days the battalion lost 3 officers and about 290 men.
Additional Information
Brother of Charles Robert who died on 10 Aug 1917 and who is also listed on this memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
