Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers

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Diedunknown
OccupationsHistorian, author, educator, researcher
Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers
Born1905
Diedunknown
EducationRoyal Military College at Sandburst
OccupationsHistorian, author, educator, researcher

Colonel Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers, (born: 1905) was an English military historian and expert on the campaigns and armies of the Napoleonic period. He also wrote a large number of books on the military history of the United Kingdom.[1]

He was born in 1905 at Wylam-on-Tyne.[2]

Education

He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College at Sandburst.[3]

Career

He was commissioned in The King's Own Royal Regiment in 1924.[4]

He was transferred to the Indian Signal Corps in 1926.[5]

After that, he was transferred to the Royal Signals in 1930.[6]

Awards and Honours

At the 1940 Birthday Honours of King George VI, he became an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for military duty for the Royal Corps of Signals and its operations in France and Belgium in 1940.[7][8][9]

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