Alan Stanley Clark Rogers was a Calgarian who, after graduating from Royal Military College, elected to serve in the British Army. Posted to India, he eventually joined the 61st King George’s Own Pioneers. Home on furlough during the summer of 1914, he headed to England after war was declared in late August. Attached to the 6th East Yorkshire Regiment, and by now promoted to captain, Rogers shipped out for the Dardanelles to join the campaign against the Ottoman Empire. Arriving in July 1915, a month later, on August 8, 1915, he helped capture a key hill at the front. In the afternoon, while leading a patrol, he was shot by sniper and killed. Rogers was twenty-seven, and is buried at Gallipoli, in Turkey.

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