Source: Not known.
Possibly resided Montana and died at Nampa, Alberta, Canada.
Brother was Private Harold Rogers, reg. no. 53722.
Family Search: When Sergeant Eric Langland Rogers was born on 24 December 1895, in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Rogers, was 32 and his mother, Minerva Loretta Rolfe, was 31. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1895 and lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Peace River, Alberta, Canada for about 5 years. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1931, at the age of 36, his occupation is listed as grain buyer in Peace River, Alberta, Canada. He died on 13 October 1967, in Nampa, Northern Sunrise County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 71.
Killed in a car accident near Lethbridge. Article has him living at Nampa, Alberta.
VETERAN OF YPRES TO ENLIST BRITISHERS AT ANN ARBOR OFFICE
Victim of the Greatest Battles of the War to Still Be of Help.
Sergt. Major H. V. Fox, who opened the British Canadian Recruiting mission in this city at 106 South Main street yesterday, will be assisted for the remainder of his stay in the city by Sergt. G. L. Rogers, of the Canadian army, who arrived in the city today.
Sergt. G. L. Rogers of the 18th Canadian Infantry Battalion signed up in October, 1914, and after training for two or three months, proceeded overseas with the battalion. He went through the battles of Ypres, St. Eloir, Somme and Vimy Ridge and after being in the midst of the thickest and most intense fighting which took place on the western front, was one of few remainders from his battalion who were returned, nervous breakdown and inflammatory rheumatism being the causes. He had a thorough experience in modern warfare and has been in several air raids in English towns and cities.
Sergt. Rogers is very strong in his praise of the cheerful spirit shown by the men when wounded. To illustrate this he tells the following story:
“At the battle of the Somme on September 15, 1916, one of his comrades, a lad of 18 or 19 years, after accounting for several of the enemy, had a leg and arm blown off and several minor shrapnel wounds in his chest. Stretcher bearers saw it was impossible to save young Douglas’s life, and he realized himself that he only had a matter of an hour or so to live.
“Stretcher bearers dressed his wounds the best they could and made him as comfortable as possible in a shell hole near by. Douglas, far from being downhearted with the pain and suffering, maintained a cheerful smile on his face. When one of his comrades passed near he always had the words, ‘best of luck,’ on his lips.
“Just before he passed away he asked one of the boys to take his pay book out of his pocket, and out of the pay book he took the picture of his mother, and with the same smile on his face and the picture of his mother at his lips he ‘cashed in his checks.’”
The Ann Arbor News. Thu, Apr 25, 1918 ·Page 2.
