No.2354, Private, Charles ROGERS
Aged 20
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Charles Rogers was born in Little Saxham (4th qtr 1894 Thingoe) son of Alfred and Amelia ROGERS (née CHINERY)
1901 census...Aged 6, he was at Honey Hill, Little Saxham with his father Alfred ROGERS [45] engine driver on farm, born Pakenham; his mother Amelia [38] born Thurston; sister Daisy [15] born Norton; brothers Ernest [13] farm labourer, Jack [11], Fred [9], William [7], Alfred [4] and Edward [1]. All the boys were born in Little Saxham. 1911 census...Aged 16, a farm labourer, he was still at Honey Hill with his parents; brothers Alfred (farm labourer), Edward and Algernon [5], nephew Cecil G [7] On the pension card his mother was at 14 North View, Burley in Wharfdale, Yorkshire.( home of his sister in law, wife of Ernest) His brother Ernest was killed in 1918. He had moved to Yorkshire and is not named on the Little Saxham Memorials |
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He enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds
The battalion were having a spell in support trenches, but enduring very hot weather conditions and harassed all the time by sniper fire
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