Name
Albert Rogers
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
51676
Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
XIII. E. 8.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Albert Rogers was born in 1887 in Berkhamsted, the son of William and Eliza Rogers. He was one of ten children, but six died in infancy.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Trinity Marsh Lane, Waltham Cross, Cheshunt, Herts where his father was working as a general labourer. They remained there in 1901 and 1911 and Albert was working as a general labourer from the age of 13.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and initially served with the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 4952, later being transferred to the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
Register of Soldiers' Effects register records it was officially accepted that he had died on 14 November 1918 and is buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany, which suggests that he may have been a prisoner of war.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £22 19s 5d. Pension cards exist but give no indication of the amount of pension received.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
