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217800Pte. John Rogers
British Army 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:34 Luke Street, Liverpool.
(d.9th Mar 1917)
Pte John Rogers served with the South Lancashire Regiment 2nd Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 9th March 1917 and is buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, in Bailleul, France
The 2nd Battalion was a Regular Battalion which had landed at Havre on 14th august 1914 as part of the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division but on 18th October 1915 was transferred to the 7th Brigade of the 25th Division and then on the 26th October 1915 to the 75th Brigade in the same Division. The 25th Division had been continuously in action on the Somme from 5th July to 22nd November 1916. On the 31st October 1916 Divisional Headquarters moved to Bailleul and the Division assumed responsibility for the Ploegsteert Sector with a frontage of about 6,000 yards from the River Lys to Hill 63, to the North of Ploegsteert Wood.
Private Rodgers was serving with the Battalion actually in the trenches in 1917 when he left his colleagues. The Courts Martial was on 5th March 1917 and he was shot at 6 a.m. on 9th March. He was married and his wife Harriett Rogers lived at 34 Luke Street, Liverpool.
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