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Military service
Service number:
2004603
Age:
41
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
1st Tunnelling Coy.
Birth:
August 6, 1878
Death:
October 7, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 8.
Additional information
Son of George and Elizabeth Rogers, of Berry's Mills, Westmoreland Co., New Brunswick, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sapper Bliss Herbert Rogers
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Memorial Plaque
Plaque of brown wood, lettering is in gold. At the top there is a union jack and a red ensign flag, at the bottom there is a maple leaf. This plaque hung in the Second Baptist Church of Lutes Mountain (Lutes Mountain United Baptist Church) and currently hangs in the schoolroom of the Lutz Mountain Heritage Museum. Memorial Inscription: Marked in gold lettering: "Pupils of Lutes Mt. School erected this tablet in memory of Fellow Pupils who were killed in the Great War." Chas. McCallum Thomas Francis Oley Lutes Asail Horsman David Killam Percy Leaman George Leaman Danl. McPherson Edgar Horsman Bliss Rogers Miller Horsman. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Letter dated July 16, 1918, in the Lutz Mountain Heritage Museum, sets forth the details of death of Bliss Herbert Rogers #2004603: "The above mentioned soldier was killed around Chicago Siding on the Westhoek Road on October 7, 1917. He was killed instantaneously by a fragment from a German shell. Bliss Herbert Rogers (!876-1917) was the son of George and Elizabeth Rogers, Berry's Mills, Westmorland County, New Brunswick and died during World War I
Digital gallery of
Sapper Bliss Herbert Rogers
Digital gallery of
Sapper Bliss Herbert Rogers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 318 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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