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Leonard Castel Campbell Rogers was born at Cuttack, India on 29 January 1886 and was educated at Blundells, where he played in both the cricket and football XI.

Commissioned into the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1906, he joined the 7th Gurkha Rifles in November 1908, being made Quartermaster in 1913. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he served in France and was in action at Festubert, with Rogers being attached to the 1/9th Gurkha Rifles, his orderly Rifleman Panchbir Mal at his side.

They took over the line previously occupied by the Northamptonshire Regiment and Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

Rogers would discover that a man lay out in the open, wounded but alive.

The 9th Gurkha Rifles continues: 'A shallow ditch ran forward from the Coldstream Guards' trench some distance to the right of that held by the Battalion, in the direction of the wounded man. Lieutenant Rogers crawled along this, and running forward about one hundred yards reached, and with difficulty picked up the man and started to return. Unable to carry the weight, he fell some forty yards from the end of the ditch where Panchbir had been told to remain.

The latter at once rushed to his assistance and together they lifted the wounded man on to Panchbir's back and restarted. Heavy rifle fire had now been opened and Rogers fell, hit through the back, while the wounded man was again hit in the leg, and the orderly had two bullets through his greatcoat.

Undeterred, Panchbir carried him to the ditch, and then, retracing his steps, in turn brought back Lieutenant Rogers. Lieutenant Murray had now reached the spot, and with his assistance both were then successfully brought into the safety of the fire trench.

This particularly gallant act took place in broad daylight, at 3pm on a still quiet afternoon, when conditions did anything but inspire cold-blooded deeds of bravery. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Rogers died of his wounds the following morning. Both were strongly recommended for the Victoria Cross. Lieutenant Rogers, however, received the Military Cross posthumously, while Rifleman Panchbir received the I.O.M. 2nd Class, and was promoted Havildar.'

Lt. Rogers is buried in the Le Touret Cemetery, his grave bearing the inscription: 'FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.'