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Second Lieutenant JOHN GORDON ROGERS

Service Number: 113354
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 May 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NOORDSCHOTE CHURCHYARD

Grave 70.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. John Herbert Rogers, formerly of The East Yorkshire Regt., and Dora Rogers, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE HIS COMRADES
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Buried or commemorated at

NOORDSCHOTE CHURCHYARD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 14
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