Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Serjeant N. F. Rogers, Intelligence Corps, mentioned in despatches for services in Burma

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (1457865 Sjt., Int. Corps.) good very fine (5) £200-240

Sergeant N. F. Rogers transferred from the Royal Artillery to the Intelligence Corps on 24 October 1943 and entered the world of Signals Intelligence. He was posted to the Wireless Experimental Centre Special W/T Research Wing in India, then to 54 Wireless Intelligence Section; 15 Indian Corps Special W/T Coy; 200 Indian Special Inelligence Company and then 301 Indian Special Wireless Section.
 
There were two Wireless Experimental Centres apart from Bletchley Park and the Indian Centre was sited at Anand Parbart outside Delhi with three outstations at Abbottabad, Bangalore and Barrackpore. In total approximately 1000 men from the Intelligence Corps, RAF, Indian Army and West Africa were engaged in this work which involved breaking and translating Japanese signal traffic, traffic analysis and compiling the Japanese Order of Battle. Unlike Bletchley Park the Indian Signal Intelligence operations was run on ‘Military lines’ and was commanded by Colonel Patrick Marr-Johnson.
 
There were also a small number of mobile Y-Stations, which entered Burma and were also tasked with intercepting, breaking and translating Japanese signal traffic. Sergeant Rogers was a member of a mobile Y-Station and probably had to use a mule to carry his wireless set with a ‘bicycle construction’ to keep his batteries charged with several poles and reels of wire for aerials.
 
It was a difficult and dangerous task and on 9 May 1946 he was awarded a Mention in Dispatches for ‘Services in Burma’. He was demobbed from the Y- List on 29 January 1946.