Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Robert Murray Rogers) very fine £80-£100

Robert Murray Rogers attested for the 28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles) and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 January 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 18 September 1915, and was killed in action on 2 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. His brother Captain C. M. Rogers of 11 Sarre Road, Hampstead, applied for his medals but they were ultimately sent to their sister Mrs M. M. Benningfield at Esplanade, Durban, South Africa.