128642 Captain Edward Peter ROGERS, 903 Company RASC attached 201 Guards Brigade: POW

Date of Enlistment: 20 January 1921
Personal Number: 128642
Rank: Captain
Name: Edward Peter ROGERS
Unit: Royal Engineers ; 903 Company, Royal Army Service Corps attached 201 Guards Brigade

Date of Birth: 21 November 1897
Place of Birth: Henley on Thames

POW Number: 1571
Date of Capture: 20 June 1942
Place of Capture: Tobruk


London Gazette : 13 August 1940
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34919/supplement/4927/data.pdf
ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS.
Actg. M.S.M. Edward Peter ROGERS (128642) to be Lt. (Mechst. Offr.). 6th May 1940.

 

Name: Edward Roggers [Rogers] . Date of Birth: 21/11/1897 . Place of Birth: Henley on... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/312/321
Name: Edward Roggers [Rogers].
Date of Birth: 21/11/1897.
Place of Birth: Henley on Thames.
Service: [unspecified].
Rank: Captain.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: Royal Army Service Corps.
Service Number: 128642.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Oflag V111F Mahrisch.
PoW number: 1571.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

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PART I.
GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.

1. No. 128642
RANK - CAPTAIN
SURNAME - ROBERS
CHRISTIAN NAMES - EDWARD PETER
DECORATIONS - GENERAL SERVICE, VICTORY, AFRICA STAR, LONG SERVICE

2. UNIT (ARMY) - R.A.S.C. (201 GUARDS BRIGACE, (903) COY.)

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 1st ARMOURED

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 21/11/1897

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 20/1/21 (Having served for 18 months with R.E. in last War)

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - Fitter & Turner

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 2 NEWTON GARDENS, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, OXON, ENGLAND

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - TOBRUK, 20/6/42

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
CC 75 BARI 30/6/42 - 5/8/42
CC 21 CHIETI 6/8/42 - 23/9/43
En Route to Germany, staging at SULMONA 24/9/43 - 5/10/43
STALAG VII A MOOSBERG 10/10/43 - 8/12/43
OFLAG VIII F MARISCH TRUBAU 11/12/42 - 30/4/44
OFLAG 79 BRUNSWICK 1/5/44 - 125/45
LIBERATED 12/5/45


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
NO

12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
NO
My denture fractured whilst in Italy, & was never repaired either by Italians or Germans
12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
-


GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 128642
RANK - CAPTAIN
SURNAME - ROGERS
CHRISTIAN NAMES - EDWARD PETER


2. LECTURES before Capture:
( a ) Were you lectured in your unit on how to behave the event of capture? (State where, when and by whom).
YES - By reading pamphlet on subject, & by seeing film "RANK, NAME AND NUMBER". REGRET I FORGET DATES AND LOCATION
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
THIS SUBJECT WAS DISCUSSED BY O.C. AND OFFICERS OF UNIT WHEN CERTAIN OBJECTS WERE DISTRIBUTED.

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
NO

4. ESCAPES attempted:
Did you make any attempted or partly successful escapes? (Give details of each attempt accurately, stating where, when, method employed, names of your companions, wherein when recaptured and by whom. Were you physically fit? What happened to your companions?)
ARRANGED TO LEAVE TRAIN BETWEEN SULMONA & ROME, BUT WAS PREVENTED FROM ACCOMPANYING PARTY BY ACUTE ATTACK OF LUMBADO, THOUGH ABLE TO ASSIST DEPARTURE OF COMRADES. IN SAFETY.


5. SABOTAGE
Did you do any sabotage or destruction of enemy factory plant, war material, communications, etc, when employed on working-parties or during escape? (Give details, places and dates.)
NO

6. COLLABORATION with enemy:
Do you know of any British or American personnel who collaborated with the enemy or in any way helped the enemy agains other Allied Prisoners of War? (Give details, names of persons concerned, camps, dates and nature of collaboration or help given to enemy).
NO

7. WAR CRIMES
If you have any information or evidence of bad treatment by the enemy to yourself or to others, or knowledge of any enemy violation of Geneva Convention you should ask for a copy of "Form Q" on which to make your statement.
(NOTE: Form Q is a separate form inviting information on "War Crimes" and describes the kind of offences coning under this title.)



GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET
(continued)

8. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice?
No - except that I know to have already been taken up by S.B.O.


SECURITY UNDERTAKING
I fully realise that all information relating the matters covered by the questions in Part II. are of a highly secret and official nature.

I have had explained to me and fully understand that under Defence Regulations or U.S.A.R. 380-5 I am forbidden to publish or communicate any information concerning these matters.

Date 24th April 1945
Signature Edward P Rogers, Capt

 

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• "Six: Captain E. P. Rogers, Royal Army Service Corps, late Royal Engineers, taken Prisoner of War at Tobruk, 20 June 1942
  British War and Victory Medals (234810 Spr. E. P. Rogers. R.E.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (T-31232 W.O. Cl.II. E. P. Rogers. R.A.S.C.) nearly very fine and better (6) £180-220
• Edward Peter Rogers was born at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 21 November 1897 and served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War. he re-enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps on 20 January 1921, and was advanced to Warrant Officer Class II. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was commissioned Lieutenant and saw service in North Africa as a Captain with the 201st Guards Brigade, 903 Company, Royal Army Service Corps. He was taken Prisoner of War at Tobruk on 20 June 192. Initially held in Italy at Cap 75 at Bari, from 30 June 1942, he was then moved to Camp 21 at Chieti on 6 August 1942, and then to Germany by train via Sulmona and Rome. During the rail transit he was involved in an escape attempt, and although a severe attack of lumbago prevented him from escaping himself, several fellow prisoners got away safely.
  Rogers was held in Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, Bavaria, from 10 October 19423, and at Oflag VIIIF at Mahrisch-Trubai in Czechoslovakia from 11 October 1943, followed by Oflag 79 at Waggum, Brunswick, from where he was liberated on 12 May 1945."