BORN HULL 1884. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS AND ELIZA ROGERS, OF 8 ALBERT TERRACE, SPRING STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.
EMPLOYED AS A COAL TRIMMER. HE MARRIED TEREZA HEMPSOCK, AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL, ON 09/12/1903. HIS WIFE TERESA, LIVED AT 4 RUGMERE AVENUE, REGENT STREET (1911 CENSUS), 2 VILLA PLACE, HESSLE ROAD,(ARMY ADDRESS) AND 9 ALMA TERRACE, ETON STREET, HULL. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 16/11/1914. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 140 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST, A TATTOO OF “JWR” ON LEFT FOREARM. TRAINED AT BEVERLEY AND RIPON. SERVED WITH THE 13TH HULL PALS, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 07/08/1916, AGED 32. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 266 DAYS. HE WAS BURIED AT LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, TEREZA. HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE HULL’S ETON STREET MEMORIAL.
