Name
Frederick Rogers
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/07/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
95386
Royal Field Artillery
No Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AMARA WAR CEMETERY
IX. J. 16.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone. "See Note 1"
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Frederick Rogers was born in 1898, in Waltham Abbey, Essex/Cheshunt, Herts, depending on the document, the birth was registered in Edmonton, Middx, son of John Rogers a, Labourer at the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey and Ada Elizabeth Rogers (nee Curtis). One of twelve children although four died in infancy.
1901 Census records Frederick aged 3, living with his parent, five brothers and sister Ada (15) at, 27 Milton Street, Waltham Abbey, Essex.
1911 Census, Frederick aged 13, is at school, living with his parents, sister Ada and four brothers at, 72 East Brook Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Edmonton, posted to the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) with the service number 95386.
He served in Mesopotamia, with the RFA, where he died on 6th July 1916, at the British General Hospital, Amarah/Amara, Mesopotamia, (modern day Iraq). He is buried in the Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Grave Ref: IX. J. 16. See Note 1.
Additional Information
His effects of £8-9s-9d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3, went to his father John Rogers.
His Medal Index Card gives the date of death as 6th September 1916, all other documents give 6th July 1916.
Note 1. Amara War Cemetery. In 1933, all the Headstones were removed from the Cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead, a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the Cemetery engraved on it.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
