Clifford Henry Rogers
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Hampshire Regiment
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Private 5735259
Parents: Gilbert Edwin and Emily Rogers
Home address: 71 Rodney Road, Kingswood, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Assistant Decorator
Date of birth: 1923
Place of birth: Monmouthshire
Date of death: 27/11/1943
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Minturno War Cemetery, Italy. Not commemorated on a local memorial
Age: 20
Further information:
Clifford was born in Monmouthshire, the son of a boot repairer and a middle child of six children. In 1939 the family were living over their boot shop in Kingswood.
Clifford's Battalion (1/4th Battalion) fought in the Italian Campaign and Clifford was killed in action during fighting around the Western end of the Gustav Line – a series of fortifications built by the Germans which ran across Italy from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east. Initially buried close to where he fell, Clifford was reburied at Minturno Military Cemetery in December 1944.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/