Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (2nd Lieut. H. T. Rogers, Sappers & Miners) minor edge nicks, good very fine £300-£400

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2002.

Henry Thomas Rogers was born in January 1830 and was commissioned into the Madras Engineers on 11 December 1849 after attending Addiscombe between 1848-49. Arriving in the East on 2 March 1850, he served in the Second Burma War with the 4th Madras Sappers and Miners at the capture of Rangoon in April 1852 and was advanced to 1st Lieutenant on 1 August 1854. This was to be his only stint of active service but he went on to enjoy steady promotion, being advanced Captain on 1 September 1963; Major on 5 July 1972; Lieutenant-Colonel on 11 December 1873; and Colonel on 11 December 1878, and held a number of senior appointments, latterly as Principal of the Madras Civil Engineering College at Fort St. George. Rogers returned to the U.K. on 20 March 1880, after 30 years and 19 days’ continuous service in India, and retired in the rank of Major-General on 10 July 1886. He died at his residence at St. Leonards-on-Sea on 7 October 1898.