Arthur Rogers, Age 24

Private, 37006, 1/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.

Gloucestershire Regiment Cap Badge.

Arthur lived at 6 Lightmoor and before joining the Gloucestershire’s had served as Private 2645 in the KSLI.

He was killed in action during 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) and his body was never found. Arthur’s name appears on the Tyne Cot Memorial Panels 72 — 75.

A year after Arthur’s death a notice appeared in the Memorandum section of the Wellington and Shrewsbury Journal next to the one’s for Private A. E. Lovatt It was from Arthur’s family and read;
Rogers - In ever-loving memory of our dear son and brother, Private Arthur Rogers, 6 Lightmoor. Killed in action Oct. 9th 1917. “Days of sadness still come 0 ’er us, hidden tears do freely flow, memory keeps our dear one near to us, although he died twelve months ago” Silently mourned by his loving Parents and Sisters.

Arthur’s medals, plaque and scroll along with silk postcards and a hankie chief that he sent to his sister Lizzie are still kept by his family.

Arthur Rogers 1893 - 1917

Extra info:
Arthur was born at Leighton when his mother Jane Elizabeth (maiden name Boycott) was staying with her grandparents, Arthur’s Christenings was on the 15th Mar 1893 at Leighton, Shropshire, his mother Jane E died and her Burial was at St Luke’s Doseley, on the 18th Dec 1898, his father got remarried in 1909 to Annie Boycott, I don’t know if Jane and Annie were related?

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial

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Victory Medal	British War Medal