Grace Lynette Rogers
| Wartime Role | Cook - Women's Royal Auxiliary Service |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 24 January 1898 |
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| Date of Death | |
| Merton Address | Canon's Gardens, Mitcham. |
| Local Memorial |
Additional Information
Grace Lynette Rogers was born in Mitcham on 24 January 1898. Her parents, Arthur Stuart Rogers and Mary Grace Rogers, were living in Canons Gardens at the time although the family later moved to Sussex. By 1911, when Grace was 13, the family was living in Layton Villa, Hurst Wickham, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. Grace had three younger sisters: Beata, Jean and Dorothy. Her father is shown on the 1911 census as being of independent means.
Like all new WAAC recruits, Grace was sent to the WAAC headquarters at the Connaught Club in London for initial training. Here she was fitted out with her khaki uniform before her posting to Camiers in France. Camiers was part of the Étaples Army Base Camp in the Pas de Calais. It was the largest of its kind and served as a training base, a depot for supplies and a medical centre with almost twenty general hospitals.
Grace, who was employed as a cook, was assigned to the Princess Patricia camp which housed the soldiers of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. She arrived there in July 1919, after the armistice, so she probably worked in the Queen Mary’s convalescent depot or one of the three hospitals that remained there until the end of 1919. She was discharged in October 1919