No.5823682, Private, Percy Samuel ROGERS
Aged 35
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Percy Samuel Rogers was born in 1907 in Ampton(Thingoe Q1-1908 4A:965), son of John and Jane Susannah E. ROGERS (née WELLS).
1911 census...Aged 3, he was in Ampton with his father John ROGERS [39] labourer in woods born Pakenham; his mother Jane Susannah E [36] born Whepstead; brothers Bertie John [13], Sidney Thomas [12] and sister Victoria Daisy [9] all born in Little Livermere, brothers Robert Victor [7] and Arthur William [5] born Ampton. There was another brother, George [14] born Fornham St Martin, who was with his grandparents, Henry and Eliza MUSK, at School Lane, Fornham St Martin. In the 1939 register, at 9 Ampton were his father John [14-12-1866] a gamekeeper; his mother Jane [10-1-1876] and brother Robert V [10-8-1903] a gardener. There are no closed records. His elder brother Bertie John was killed in the Battle of Arras in 1917 see here |
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He was killed on the day Singapore was surrendered to the Japanese. The 2 battalions of the Cambridgeshires (1st and 2nd), 2 Suffolk battalions (4th and
5th) and the 4th and 5th Battalions, Norfolk Regiment were fighting to the very end and reported to have been rather upset at the surrender.
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