Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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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.