Picture courtesy of Noonan's
MM GV (4490 Sgt. J. Rogers. Essex. R.) officially renamed;
[ QSA and KSA ];
1914 Star (47010 Sgt. J. Rogers. Essex. R.);
British War and Victory Medals (47010 Sgt. J. Rogers. M.M. Essex. R.) area of erasure before number on BWM, number on VM officially corrected;
Army LS&GC GV 2nd issue with fixed suspension (4490 Pte. J. Rogers. Essex. R.)
MM London Gazette 11 November 1916.
John Rogers served with with the Essex Regiment, and was attached to No. 3 Section, Burma Mounted Infantry in South Africa from 24 January 1900. He was severely wounded near Hartenbosch, 8 April 1902. Rogers served with the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front as a Private from 22 August 1914. The Battalion took part in the battle of the Somme in 1916, where they Battalion advanced at 8.35am on the 1st July; and were beaten back by strong enemy counter-attacks. The Battalion’s strength at the close of the day was 2 officers and 192 other ranks, out of a total of 24 officers and 606 men who had gone into action.
Noonan's note that another MM group to this man, correctly named in all respects, was sold at Spink in 2005, including a QSA (3) Cape Colony, Driefontein, Transvaal, and a KSA (2), possibly indicating that the above is a replacement or duplicate group.
KSA listed on WO100/335p205