ROGERS, Stanley Gordon
| Service Numbers: | T27278, T27278 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Casualty Clearing Stations WW2 |
| Born: | Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia, 8 January 1921 |
| Home Town: | Devonport, Devonport, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sawmiller |
| Died: | Devonport, Tasmania, Australia, 5 February 2002, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mersey Vale Memorial Park Cemetery, Tasmania |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 17 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T27278 | |
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| 20 Oct 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T27278, Casualty Clearing Stations WW2 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Stanley Gordon Rogers (Service No:T27278) served in the ACMF from 17 March 1941 to 20 October 1947 with 9 Casualty Clearing Station.
Born in Deloraine, Tasmania in 1921, Stan was third of five children of Leslie (Les) Ernest Johnathan Rogers (b1889 at Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania) and Dorothy Mary Shaw (b1899 in Mersey, Tasmania). Les (a Sawmiller) and Dorothy married in 1916 in Deloraine, and lived at Mole Creek via Deloraine and in Deloraine, where they raised their family and Les was a Sawmiller.
Stan worked in Devonport as a Sawmiller before enlisitng in the ACMF. In the late 1940s in Devonport, he married Brida Evelyn King (b1925 in Wilmott, Tasmania). Stan and Brida lived in Devonport - where Stan was a Sawmiller - before moving to Kentish in 1950. They settled in Kentish, where they raised their family and Stan was a Driver and Mechanic. Stan died in 2002 and Brida in 2016.
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