Cyril Evelyn Rogers
Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 14922
Parents: Isaac and Eliza Rogers (nee Price)
Home address: The Avenue, Yate, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: School Attendance Officer
Date of birth: 1884
Place of birth: Yate, Bristol
Date of death: 03/09/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Guillemont Road Cemetery (Ref: XIV. H. 5.), Guillemont
Age: 32
Further information:
Cyril Evelyn Rogers was a School Attendance Officer who lived at The Avenue, Yate, with is wife Amy and their children Archibald and Harold. His Father was the Master of the British School in North Road.
Cyril enlisted in Bristol to the 12th Battalion (Service Bristol) Gloucestershire Regiment and disembarked in France on 21st November 1915. He was Killed in Action aged 32 and is buried in the Guillemont Road Cemetery (Ref: XIV. H. 5.).
Cyril Evelyn Rogers is remembered on the Yate Lych Gate Memorial and Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Yate.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre, Forces War Records and CWGC