225973 Pte. William Rogerson British Army 25th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.1st July 1916) Private William Rogerson of the 25th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers was my great uncle and died on 1st July 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was brought up in South Tottenham, London and moved to Nottinghamshire (from where the family had originated) to work on a farm for a cousin. Together with another great uncle (on the other side of the family), William Rogerson is on the Church War Memorial in Lambley, Nottinghamshire and his name is read out together with the casualties of both wars on Remembrance Sunday. I am now 70 and remember my pride as a child. When I can I attend the Remembrance Service. I have visited the grave of one uncle and also the war memorials. William's brother Charles was in the Middlesex Regiment and died on 12th April 1918.
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