Major Wilfrid Frank ROGERS (1909)

45 Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Born 20 November 1890 in Kensington, London
Killed in action 19 May 1917, aged 26
Buried at Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines, France.

Wilfrid Rogers was the younger son of Revd Alfred George Rogers and Mabel Fanny Gertrude, née Reynolds, of Gatton Rectory, Merstham, Surrey.

He was educated at Charterhouse. While at Merton he played cricket for the College.

Already serving at the outbreak of war, he spent the next three years in France. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in 1917.

He was killed in action near Arras on 19 May 1917, and posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Order on 4 June.