Amos Rogers

Name

Amos Rogers
1878

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

29/10/1914
36

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
7903
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

PORTE-DE-PARIS CEMETERY, CAMBRAI
I. A. 37.
France

Headstone Inscription

REST IN PEACE

UK & Other Memorials

Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware, Not on the Furneux Pelham memorials, Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials

Pre War

Amos Rogers was born in 1878 in Furneux Pelham, Herts to Ambrose and Jessie (Warwick) Rogers and was baptised there on 7 July 1878. 


On the 1891 Census he was living at Barley Croft End, near Furneux Pelham.  Amos was 14 and working as a farm labourer with his father and elder brother. He married Eliza Williams in 1908 in Ware. On the 1911 Census he was a horsekeeper and living at Priors Wood, Widbury, Nr Ware, Herts.  He was said to have been married 3 years, but his wife was not listed there.   


Recorded as born in Furneux Pelham and living in Bishop's Stortford when he enlisted there.

Wartime Service

He enlisted at Bishop’s Stortford and served in the 1st Btn, Bedfordshire Regiment. He was in France from 16 Aug 1914 and died at Notre Dame de Grace, Cambrai whilst a prisoner of war.

Additional Information

Mrs A Rogers (his widow?), 29 Trinity Street, Bishop's Stortford, ordered his headstone inscription: "REST IN PEACE". His widow received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £2 6s. She also received a pension of 10 shillings a week from 5 July 1915, which stopped when she remarried on 28 December 1915 to Frederick Ball.

Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox