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Western Mail, Thursday, 8 August 1929, p. 2
Captain A.T. Rogers, M.C.
There are hundreds of officers and men in this State who will remember Captain Arthur Rogens, M.C. He was killed with the 32nd Battalion in its last fight in the Hindenburg Line on September 29. 1918. A Coolgardie boy, be was one of the finest physical specimens on the goldfields and long before the war had taken to a military career. He joined the old Goldfields Infantry in his 16th year, advancing his "military" age two years in order to do so. He soon reached non-commissioned rank and two years later was a sergeant. At 20 (military age) he joined the Instructional Staff (permanent forces) and added another two years to enable him to get in at, its minimum of 22 years.
In the training school which followed in the Eastern States, Arthur was called before the C.O. one morning and confronted with three documents; his original attestation paper on the goldfields, his staff attestation paper, and his birth certificate. Explanations followed and were accepted. The C.O. was a "sport." He tore the documents up in front of Arthur and told him to "carry on." Rogers passed out of the school well and before be was actually 19 years old was posted to his old unit in Kalgoorlie as staff instructor. That was about 1911.
Then came the war, and as an instructor to the 11th, 16th, and 28th; to officers, N.C.O's. and musketry schools, he gave splendid service in fitting the A.I.F. for war. Capable instructors, men who really knew their jobs, were then at a premium and "Sar-Major" Rogers could measure up to a very high standard in that respect.
When the 32nd was formed he was given a commission and left Australia with that unit. At Fromelles, in 1916, he was wounded. Rejoining, he saw his unit through most of the severe fighting of the next two years, during which he was awarded the Military Cross and gained his captaincy. His bluff boyishness never left him and combined with his efficiency out and his bravery in the line he was one of the most popular officers in the 32nd Battalion. The end came in that unit's final fight when Arthur Rogers died as he had lived, a splendid young Australian.