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Remembered Today:

In From The Cold - 09.12.08


Terry Denham

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CWGC added the following 'new' WW1 casualties to its Debt of Honour database today – Tuesday 9th December.

Pte Alfred Ernest BROMAGE

1653 Royal Army Medical Corps

Died 31.10.16 Age 20

Buried: Burghill (St Mary) Churchyard, Herefordshire, UK

Capt William Ernest ROGERSON

12th Bn, Durham Light Infantry

Died 13.11.14 Age 42

Buried: Darlington West Cemetery, Durham, UK

NOT FORGOTTEN

Capt ROGERSON was put forward on 11.06.08 on behalf of member, Chris Harley, and he will be able to tell the story.

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May They Rest In Peace

Will follow up with Captain Rogerson's story later

Chris

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I found Captain Rogerson listed in the Times Death notices

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His Death Notice from the Times of 16th Nov 1914

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His Grave - photo courtesy & copyright of Darlington Borough Council - their assistance was invaluable in tracking down his grave

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His DC shows that he died of angina pectoris at Fairmead, Pirbright, Guildford.

His address is shown as Neasham Abbey, Darlington

He was born in Q4 1872 in Co Durham at Croxdale Hall

His father John Rogerson was a coal & iron merchant - mother was Sarah Ann Rogerson

He had a brother & 3 sisters.

By the 1891 census he is shown as a Cambridge undergraduate whilst his father is shown as a civil engineer

1901 census he is a visitor at the house of George F Boyd, Moor House Leamside - a solicitor & deputy lord lt, JP. William is shown as steel manufacturer.

He married Violet Mary Mackesy in Kensington Dec 1898

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Chris,

Interesting , another HEART PROBLEM case approved (well done). Was he still serving when he died or not?

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Neil death in service according to his DC

Chris

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