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Corporal Oliver John Rogers

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Military service

Service number: L/7375
Age: 31
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Division: 1ST Bn.
Death: July 22, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XIV. D. 28.
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Son of George Rogers; husband of Sarah Ann Rogers. Left Kamloops, British Columbia, Aug., 1914, to enlist. Three of his brothers served in the same Regiment and two in others.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 573 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY Somme, France

Longueval is a village approximately 13 kilometres east of Albert and10 kilometres south of Bapaume. Caterpillar Valley Cemetery lies a short distance west of Longueval on the south side of the road to Contalmaison. Within the cemetery is Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, which commemorates those officers and men of the New Zealand Division who fell in the Battles of the Somme, 1916, and whose graves are not know.

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