Alternate name(s):
Ruggy; Rogers; Vinceso Ruggerio
Jim Rogers
Nickname:
Jimmy
Date of birth:
Thursday, 24 June 1920
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Canadian; Italian
Profession:
student; later a shipper with Leland Electric
Hometown(s):
Guelph, Ontario
Political affiliation:
No party affiliation
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-08-06 sailed
1937-08-21 via the Pyrenees
Unit:
Trained at Tarazona; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 4; Served at Fuentes de Ebro, Ebro Offensive including Gandesa, Sierra Pandols, and Sierra Caballs; Rank Cabo
Final status:
WIA in chest and head by machine gun fire 9 August 1938 at Sierra Caballs; Hospitalized at Tarragona 10 days and elsewhere 28 days; Survived; Returned on the Duchess of Richmond 27 January 1939; World War II, trained with 63 Field Battery, transferred to 19 Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, 1941-1944; Sent to Europe 1943, participated in D-Day, 6 June 1944, KIA 8 July 1944
Other:
Underage when he left home without his parents' permission and volunteered, Ruggiero was the youngest Canadian who went to Spain; In 1939, the Guelph Mercury and the Toronto Start reported that one of Ruggiero's cousins, Giuseppe RiVielli, fought for the Nationalists with the Italian Army.
Sources:
Figueres List; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 567, ll. 16-20; Hoar; Easterbrook; Liversedge; Momryk; Petrou, Ancestry; Canada WWII Service Files of the Dead; Easterbrook
