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
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew’s Church Buckland & Chipping Memorial, Buckland,
St Andrew’s Church Buckland & Chipping ROH, Buckland,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
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
