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• Name ROGERS
• Initials GE
• First name GEORGE EDWARD
• Place of birth Westmead
• Country New South Wales
• Last residence Westmead, New South Wales
• Family Son of Jeffery Edmund Rogers and Catherine Rogers, of Bailey St., Westmead, New South Wales.
• Profession Carpenter

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Warwick, 28 August 1915
• Service number 2408
• Rank Private
• Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 31st Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 5th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Left Australia for Egypt with the 4th Reinforcements in March 1916, and arrived in France for service on the Western Front in July 1916.
  Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on 14 March 1916

Death

• Wounded 26 September, Polygon Wood
• Type of wounds Abdominal wounds from shell fragments ; died of wounds at n°10 CCS
• Date of death 28 September 1917
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - D - 17A

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