Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.B.E. and great War A.F.C. group of fourteen awarded to Air Commodore A. D. Rogers, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service

The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 2nd type neck badge; Air Force Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed (Lieut. Douglas Rogers, November 10th 1917); 1914-15 Star (Mid., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem (Lieut., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem, the last six privately named (G/Capt., C.B.E. R.A.F.); Jubilee 1935 (S/Ldr., A.F.C.); Coronation 1937 (S/Ldr., A.F.C.); French Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, the last thirteen mounted as worn, together with three silver sports medals, two named and dated (R.A.F. Egypt 1934), the earlier medals polished, good fine, otherwise very fine and better (17) £800-1000

A.F.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919. The date inscribed on the reverse of his cross refers to an incident when he was an Observer in a Short Type 184 Seaplane which had taken off from H.M.S. Riviera and which crashed after stalling while on patrol. Sub-Lieut. Stallard and Observer Sub-Lieut. Rogers were both injured but safely picked up together with the wreckage of their seaplane some 40 miles off Start Point.

C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944 - Wing Commander and Station Commander at R.A.F. Station Sullom Voe.

Alfred Douglas Rogers was born in 1897, eldest son of Captain A. H. Rogers of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. He commenced the war as a Midshipman, R.N.R., before becoming a Sub-Lieutenant (Observer) in the Royal Naval Air Service, being promoted to Lieutenant in April 1917. During this period he served on the Seaplane Carriers Riviera and Campania. He transferred to the Royal Air Force on its formation in April 1918. During the Second World War Rogers saw service as Station Commander at R.A.F. Sullom Voe, and commanded for a time in Gibraltar. He retired as Air Commodore in 1948. Sold with additional research including a copy photograph of a group of officers aboard the Seaplane Carrier Campania, believed to include Rogers.