Name
A George Rogers
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/09/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/31280
Royal Fusiliers *1
34th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Row G, Grave 43
France
Headstone Inscription
Cut down like a flower in a lovely bloom. An early tenant of the tomb
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, St Faith's Church War Memorial, Walsworth
Pre War
He was the son of James and Mary Ann Rogers of 24, St. Michael's Mount, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
This is the same person as described on the St. Faith's Church War Memorial as ‘C. Rogers’- He lived in Walsworth but he enlisted in Hitchin and was given the Regimental Number G/31280 and posted to the 34th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. This Battalion was a Labour Battalion. He was killed in action in France.
The involvement of the 34th Battalion during this period has not been found. It went to France in June 1916. Unfortunately, there is no trace of a Battalion War Diary at the Public Record Office at Kew in W.0 .95. Eventually it became 100 and 101 Labour Companies.
He was buried in Row G, Grave 43 in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
A private inscription on the headstone reads "Cut down like a flower in a lovely bloom. An early tenant of the tomb".
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn London Regiment – some sources suggest it was a Labour Battalion.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
