Frederick Erven Rogers

Name: Frederick Erven Rogers Rank: Signalman Service Number: F/95851 Service: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Date of Birth: February 13, 1920 Place of Birth: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: May 2, 1942 Place of Enlistment: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 22 Height: 5 feet, 10 ½ inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Labourer, Power House Apprentice Marital Status: Married Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Joyce Ada Rogers (Wife), Kentville, NS Date of Death: May 9, 1945 Age: 25 Cemetery: Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands Grave: Section VII, Row A, Grave 1 Commemorated on Page 559 of Canada’s Second World War Books of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 23 Frederick was the son Arthur Emery Rogers (1891-1968) and Helena ‘Lena’ Mae (Lake) Rogers (1897-1953), brother of Donald Rogers (1916-1988), Douglas Darwood Rogers (1916-1993), Stella Rogers (1922-2008), John Rogers (1938-2008), Jacklyn or Jacqueline Rogers, Helen Rogers, Arthur (Bud) Rogers (d. 1987), and the husband of Joyce Ada Rogers. Frederick’s birth record records his middle name as ‘Ervin.’ Prior to enlisting in WWII, Frederick had served in the Militia or Reserves with the King’s Canadian Hussars in Kentville from 1936-1939. Frederick married Joyce on April 22, 1942, and two had one daughter Ramona Gail Rogers (b. in November 1942). After enlisting in May of 1942, Fred completed basic training at the No. 60 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre (CABTC), also known as Camp 60, from May 19 and July 11, 1942. He spent 7 days hospitalised with myositis or muscle inflammation while training at Camp 60. He was given embarkation leave from July 15 to 20, 1942, proceeded to the staging camp at Aldershot in Kings Co., NS on July 24, 1942, and departed Canada embarking for the United Kingdom on August 8th. He arrived in the UK on August 18, 1942. He earned qualifications as a driver and lineman in England, and on July 21, 1944, he embarked in the UK, disembarking in France 2 days later on July 23rd. Signalman Frederick Erven Rogers was killed in action in Germany on May 9, 1945. He was initially interred at a temporary Canadian cemetery near Osterscheps, a village in Edewecht, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany. Later, he was reinterred at Holten Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands with cemetery consolidation.

Source: Library and Archives Canada Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave