Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Henry Rogers
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Silvertown explosion - monument
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...
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