Name
Charles John Rogers
9/11/1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
18218
Royal Garrison Artillery
35th Heavy Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 9
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Bayford & Brickendon Memorial, Bayford, Goff's Oak Village Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Charles John Rogers was born on 9th November 1882, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, son of William Rogers a, Farmer and Louise/Louisa Elizabeth Rogers (nee Cooledge). One of eleven children although four died.
Charles was Baptised on 19th June 1885, in the Parish Church, Cheshunt, Herts, with his younger brother Frederick Walter Rogers.
1891 Census records Charles aged 8, at school, living with his parents, three brothers and two sisters at, Gews Corner, Cheshunt, Herts.
1901 Census, Charles now 18, is recorded as the Farmers Son, living with his parents, sisters Violet (12) and Rose (9) at, St Lawrence Farm, Hammond Street, Herts, his grandfather James Cooledge is living with the family, and they have a boarder William Bamford.
Charles Married Winifred Amy Reed the daughter of Walter and Sarah Jane Reed of Little Berkhamsted, Herts, in January 1910, in Hatfield, Herts. They went on to have three children, Winifred Doris, Phyllis Bertha and Frank Charles Ypres Rogers.
1911 Census records Charles, married to Winifred and they have an eleven-month-old daughter Winifred, living at Claypits Farm, Bayford, Herts, where Charles was a Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted at London, posted to the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) and issued with the service number 18218. He arrived in France on 21st August 1914, with the 31st Heavy Battery, RGA, later transferred to the 35th Heavy Battery, RGA.
He was killed in action on 9th May 1915, he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, in Belgium to the missing.
Additional Information
Winifred received a widow’s pension of 20/6 a week from 22nd November 1915, and his effects of £4-10s-7d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Brian Lodge
