ROGERS Bertie

  • First Name(s):
    Bertie 
  • Surname:
    ROGERS
  • Service Number:
    17973
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    29th August 1915
  • Age At Death:
    22
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Rue-David Military Cemetery, France, Grave I. C. 12.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Crowle, enlisted Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Mrs. M. J. Rogers, of Crowle, Worcester

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ROGERS Bertie Is Named On These Memorials

Crowle School
Crowle St John the Baptist Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Crowle St John the Baptist Church with the additional information: Pte

Further Information About ROGERS Bertie

Bertie Rogers was one of 4 brothers who served during the Great War.  His father was killed near Leicester whilst working for the railways in 1896.  His mother, Mary Jane Rogers, moved to Crowle with the 5 children.  Bertie enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiments at Norton Barracks, Worcester on 5th September 1914.  After training in Plymouth, he was posted to France in 1915 and was killed in action later that year.  He was the second resident of Crowle to die in the war.

Source for additional information:
Crowle in the Great War, The Parish in 1914.

The same photograph of Private B. Rogers can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 11th September 1915 and Saturday 16th June 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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