About Me
Henry William (Lockie) Rogers was my Mother's older brother,born and raised at Kaeo in Northland,New Zealand.
After serving in the Territorial Battalion, The North Auckland Mounted Rifles,1938-39, he joined the 28th Māori Battalion,Alpha Company,'The Gum Diggers' and left for Egypt in 1940.
Lockie was KIA, Crete,2nd May 1941.
* Attached picture: * New Zealand Army Re-enactment volunteer placing flowers on Lockie’s grave, Suda Bay Military Cemetery,2005.
