ROGERS, Ernest Edgar

Credit: CWGC

Private

1st/5th Battalion

Durham Light Infantry

Ernest was born 1899 on Carisbrooke to George Henry & Mary Jane (nee GREENHAM) ROGERS who were living at 18 Worsley Road, Hunnyhill in Newport around the time of Ernest's death. Previously the family had lived at 'Forrest Side' in Gunville, Carisbrooke.

Ernest, aged 19, was Killed in Action on the 29th of August 1918 & buried in Section I Row N Grave 1 at the Glageon Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord in France. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside over 300 of his First World War comrades, of whom 10 remain unidentified.

Ernest is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother Prince also fell in The Great War.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.