Percy Rodgers (Maurice Cohen Rodriguez) to his wife Ivy

My cousin Kate gave me this letter and photographs at my father’s funeral. Our grandfather was in the middle east with the R.A.F. and wrote regularly to our grandmother and my mother.

Ivy Rodgers

As a Jewish man fighting for Britain he had changed his name from Maurice Cohen Rodrigues to Percy Rodgers, given all his family in Holland has been taken to concentration camps where they met their deaths.

Percy Rodgers airgram

Percy in the Middle East:

 

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