Born in Massachusetts to Irish immigrants. Aged 8 his family moved to New Hampshire. Served in the British Army fighting the French and the native Americans. He created the Rogers' Rangers, who were trained for raiding and close combat behind enemy lines.
Came to London a few times, trying to resolve financial problems but he also succumbed to alcoholism and died a debtor in the Kings Bench Prison.
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Major Robert Rogers
Major Robert Rogers was a colonial farmer recruited from New Hampshire, Ameri...
Belgian soldier in WW1 who died in Britain and was buried in St Mary's Cemetery, NW10.
A member of Jas. Shoolbred & Co. Ltd. who served in WW1 and returned.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Coburn Clark King was born on 28 April 1908 in Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, USA the youngest of the six children of Alonzo Wilmer King (1850-1930) and his second wife Julia Ellen King née Thuma (...
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