MAJOR WILFRID FRANK ROGERS DSO
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
19TH MAY 1917 AGE 26
BURIED: TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, FRANCE
Educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Wilfrid Rogers was already serving in the Royal Field Artillery at the outbreak of war. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force in August 1914 and was severely wounded in May 1915. Two years later he was killed in action whilst in command of the 45th Battery, 42nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. After hearing the news of his death, the padre, the Revd Oswin Creighton, wrote, "The Major was one of our very best, Rogers - a young fellow of twenty-seven. I had unbounded admiration for him, and his death is a bitter blow".