ROGERS, George Samuel
(Service number 36489)
| First Rank | Rifleman | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 05/02/1896 | Place of Birth | Waimate |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 21 September 1916 | Age | 20 years |
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| Address at Enlistment | Manchester Street, Waimate | ||
| Occupation | Labourer | ||
| Previous Military Experience | |||
| Marital Status | |||
| Next of Kin | Mrs E. OTTLEY (sister), Manchester Street, Waimate | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Rifle Brigade | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Reinforcements G Company | ||
| Date | 19 January 1917 | ||
| Transport | Waitemata | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Plymouth, Devon, England | |
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Military Awards
| Campaigns | Western European | ||
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| Service Medals | British War Medal; Victory Medal | ||
Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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| Where Captured and by Whom | |
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| Days Interned | |
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Death
| Date | *1953 | Age | 57 years |
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| Place of Death | Monmouthshire, Wales | ||
| Cause | |||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Brynithel Cemetery, Aberbeeg, Blaenau, Gwent, Wales | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
George Samuel Rogers was born on 4 or 5 February 1897 at Waimate, to Mr Rogers and Jean Peacock [source of parents’s names – ancestry family tree]. George Rogers enlisted on 21 September 1916 at Trentham, naming his sister as next-of-kin – Mrs E. Ottley, Manchester Street, Waimate. Amelia Rogers married Ernest Charles Ottley on 8 May 1912 at Waimate. He was a labourer, Methodist, and residing at Manchester Street, Waimate, perhaps with his sister.
Rifleman G. Rogers embarked with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, departing for Plymouth, England by the “Waitemata” on 19 January 1917. A very long casualty list was issued on the evening of 1 November 1917. There George Rogers 36489, C.I.R., was reported as having been wounded on 15 October.A progress report later in the month listed his as a severe case. He was reported as wounded again on 4 September 1918.
George Rogers took his discharge in England, on 28 August 1919. For his service in the Western Europe campaign, he was awarded the British War Medal and theVictory Medal. The name of G. Rogers appeared regularly on the Waimate Daily Advertiser Roll of Honour under the sub-title of Answered the Call. A note in his personnel file, dated 20 May 1924, advises that he was at 49 Glymnaur Street, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, England.
A family tree provides some more detail on George Samuel Rogers. He married Cordelia Eliza Rogers (known as Delia) in 1919 in Wiltshire (registered at Melksham). A daughter, Rosa Joyce Rogers, was born in 1923 at Bedwelty, Monmouthshire. In 1939 George and Delia were at Abertillery, Monmouthshire, George employed as a colliery stoker. George died in 1953, his death registered at Bedwelty. He was 57 years old. (On enlistment he gave 1896 as his birth year, whereas the registration was in 1897.) He was buried at Brynithel Cemetery, Aberbeeg, Blaenau, Gwent, Wales. Delia died in 1974 and was buried there, as was their daughter Rosa Joyce Morgan in 1986.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [07 July 2022]; NZ Birth Indexes (South Canterbury Branch NZSG microfiches collection) [18 July 2022]; Free BDM indexes [18 July 2022]; 1939 England & Wales Register (ancestry.com.au) [18 July 2022]; Find A Grave [18 July 2022]; NZ Times, 2 November 1917, 18 September 1918, Evening Post, 28 November 1917, Waimate Daily Advertiser, 30 May 1918 (Papers Past) [18 September 2019; 18 July 2022]
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