The Airmen's Stories - F/O B A Rogers

Bruce Arthur Rogers was educated at Brentwood School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Modern Languages. He was a member of the University Air Squadron and was commissioned in the RAFVR in February 1938.

Called to full-time service in October 1939, Rogers completed his training and joined 85 Squadron at Castle Camps on 15th September 1940. He moved to 242 Squadron at Coitishall on the 28th.

On a squadron escort for Blenheims (Circus 14) detailed to bomb the Chocques chemical works at Bethune on 17th June 1941, Rogers was shot down in Hurricane IIA Z2888 and killed.

He was 23 and is buried in Ambleteuse Communal Cemetery, France.