Career
The citation in the London Gazette of 8 August 1944, gives the following details:
The carrier platoon of the leading company, dismounted were ordered to capture the final objective. They advanced under intense fire and sustained a number of casualties. The platoon, checked by the enemy"s wire and the intensity of his machine-gun fire, took cover some 70 yards short of their objective.
Serjeant Rogers continued to advance alone, and penetrated 30 yards inside the enemy"s defences, drawing their fire and throwing them into confusion.
Inspired by his example, the platoon began the assault. Serjeant Rogers was blown off his feet by a grenade, and wounded in the legal
Nothing daunted, he ran on towards an enemy machine-gun post, attempting to silence lieutenant He was shot and killed at point blank range.
The great gallantry and heroic self-sacrifice of Serjeant Rogers were in the highest tradition of the British Army.
In 2003 Sergeant Rogers had a road named after him. A new industrial estate had been built at Hopton, Devizes, Wiltshire (near to the old Louisiana Marchant Barracks) and the road has been called "Sgt Rogers Way". The road sign gives his full name and location and year of the Venture capital award.
Earlier he had a block of flats "Rogers House" named after him on the White City Estate in Shepherds Bush, London.
His story was published as the cover story for District of Columbia Thomson"s Victor comic in issue 204 dated 16 January 1965.
