Name
Sydney Rogers
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/03/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28377
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, All Saints Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Sydney Rogers was born in 1880 in Longwick near Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, the son of Gaius and Emma Rogers and one of six children.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at the Duke of Wellington PH, Princes Risborough where his father was a baker. His father died in 1883 and his mother remarried in 1885 to baker journeyman Daniel Atkins. On the 1891 Census the family were living at 96 Apsley End, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. By 1901 his stepfather was listed living in Wandsworth but Sydney and his mother remained at 96 Apsley End where Sydney was working as a printer.
He married Annie Catherine Aggas in 1904 in Hemel Hempstead and on the 1911 Census they were living at 2 Rucklers Lane, Kings Langley, Herts where he was working as a journeyman printer at the paper mills. Their first child Ruth Ellaline was born in 1904 but died the same year. They had another five children, Violet, James, Ruth, Ada, Robert and Irene. (N.B. they named another child Ruth Ellaline who was born in 1910.)
(On pension records his widow and children were living at 56 Shrublands Avenue, Berkhamsted.)
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, Herts and initially joined the Suffolk Regiment (reg. no. 32396) later being transferred to the 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 20 March 1917 when the Battalion were involved in a single battalion attack at Croisilles in pursuit of the withdrawing Germans. He is buried in Croisilles British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow Annie received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 4s 4d. Other payments of pay owing were divided between son James (6s 8d) and daughter Ruth Ellaline (6s 8d).
Annie also received a pension of £1 11s 3d a week for herself and her six children.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
