Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers
Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1905 |
| Died | 1978 (aged 72–73) |
| Education | Royal Military College at Sandburst |
| Occupations | Historian, author, educator, researcher |
Colonel Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers (1905 - 1978) 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]
Life
He was born in 1905 at Wylam-on-Tyne.[2]
He died in 1978 in the United Kingdom.[3]
Education
He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College at Sandburst.[4]
Career
He was commissioned in The King's Own Royal Regiment in 1924.[5]
He was transferred to the Indian Signal Corps in 1926.[6]
After that, he was transferred to the Royal Signals in 1930.[7]
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.[8][9][10]
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books:[11]
- A history of artillery
- Turnpike to iron road
- The British Army : today and tomorrow
- The mounted troops of the British Army, 1066-1945
- The pageant of heraldry; an explanation of its principles & its uses to-day
- The Confederates and Federals at war