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Offline Norman Dunn

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Help needed. A relative in the Alexandra Princess of Wales Own & killed 1918 .
« on: Thursday 04 July 13 10:13 BST (UK) »
I recently discovered my maternal Grandfather's brother George Francis Rodger who was born in Hebburn on Tyne in 1891 was killed in India  28th October 1918.  His name is on the Delhi Memorial & His grave is in the new cemetery in Cherat which I think is close to where we are fighting there today in the Afghanistan region. Can any of you military experts out there tell me if there is a way I can find out anything else about him? For instance was he presented with any medals.
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Norman   

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Re: Help needed. A relative in the Alexandra Princess of Wales Own & killed 1918 .
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 July 13 10:39 BST (UK) »
He is listed as George Rodgers on details of war dead
George Rodgers private Alexandra Princess of Wales own Yorks regt no 9390

There is a medal card which looks like it is his
George Rodgers
Yorkshire Regiment
Private
no 9390
British Medal
roll 0/1/101A2
Page 87

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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: Help needed. A relative in the Alexandra Princess of Wales Own & killed 1918 .
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 July 13 10:56 BST (UK) »
From "Soldiers Died": Enlisted at Jarrow, served in 1st Battalion

CWGC page http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1437781/RODGERS,%20G
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Re: Help needed. A relative in the Alexandra Princess of Wales Own & killed 1918 .
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 July 13 11:00 BST (UK) »
"1st Battalion
August 1914 : in Barian, Punjab, attached to 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division. Remained in India throughout the war. In November 1914, briefly moved to the Delhi Brigade in 7th (Meerut) Divisional Area before going to the Kohat Brigade on the North West Frontier. Took part in Third Afghan War in 1919."

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Re: Help needed. A relative in the Alexandra Princess of Wales Own & killed 1918 .
« Reply #4 on: Monday 08 July 13 09:12 BST (UK) »
Thanks for helping Suz & also  ShaunJ
I wish I'd asked questions when I used to visit his  younger sister Jessie who was born in 1896.
I remember the two brass tobacco tins on her mantle piece that she lovingly polished. Those would have been what the King had issued to his troops for Xmas. Yet she never mentioned the past to us kids, not even that she once had a brother in the Army.
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