Second Lieutenant Francis Lyttelton Lloyd Rogers

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Date published: 28/01/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 07/01/1915
Age at death: 19
Cemetery: Pont Du Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France
Plot: I. E. 3.
Information: Second Lieutenant Francis Lyttelton Lloyd Rogers, R.F.A., aged 20, who was killed in action on the 7th January, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyttelton Rogers, 11 Merrion Square, Dublin. Before the war he was in the Engineering School, Trinity College, and the O.T.C. He volunteered for active service the day after war was declared, and went to France last August, and was in the advance last autumn at Loos. An officer writes : “He was at his post doing his duty and seeing his men were under cover”. His great-great-grandfather (maternal) was Colonel Richard Lloyd, 84th Foot, who fell in action in France on the 10th December, 1813.