Name
Gerald Christie Rogerson
1900
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
50th Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
C.13.18
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford,
Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Gerald Christie Rogerson was born in 1900 in Ware, the eldest son of Herbert and Frances Rogerson.
On the 1911 Census he was living his with family at 'Eversleigh', Havers Lane, Bishop's Stortford, Herts when he was a schoolboy.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the Royal Air Force and served in 50 Squadron at Bekesbourne, near Canterbury, Kent.
He died whilst flying a Camel F2162 which spun into the ground during aerial combat practice over Faversham, Kent.
Additional Information
Pay owing of £80 1s 0d was awarded to his father Herbert Peter Rogerson.
The headstone was put in place in 1958 by Saunders of Ipswich.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
