His classification and location at the time was Cadet, Forests Office, Gympie. A Supplementary Matriculation Examination was then undertaken in March 1923 and he passed in English and Maths B.įollowing matriculation Lew was attached to a Forestry survey camp carrying out detailed assessments and Working Plan surveys in the Mary Valley Working Plan Area. Edward Harold Fulcher Swain, one of the most dynamic of Forestry’s permanent heads. He passed Senior in only twelve months, working at night under the guidance of Rosenstengels Coaching College, having been persuaded and encouraged by Mr. But he quickly realised the need for further education and sat for the Senior Public Examination in November 1922, passing in Maths A, Geography, Physics, Surveying, Astronomy and Latin (Junior). He served as a clerk in all sections of Head Office, and gained a thorough knowledge of the organisation and administration of the Department. After securing his Junior certificate he was appointed in 1920 to the Queensland Public Service as a clerk in the Drafting Section of the Queensland Forest Service, then an administrative unit under the Department of Public Lands. He was considered a straightforward young lad. The school’s headmaster wrote that he had ‘considerable ability, untiring industry and a strong sense of purposefulness’. Young Lew was a pupil there for three years from 1917 to 1919. Lew’s family then moved from Roma to Toowoomba where he was sent to the Grammar School.
During these early school years he stayed with his uncle and aunt who lived in Spring Hill, Brisbane, and who later owned a hotel in Roma. Lew’s education began at Petrie Terrace Girls and Infants school, which was common practice for boys at the time. Lewis was an only son and his two sisters, Hester and Edith had predeceased him. Richard had married Alice Bowen from Swansea, Glamorgan, also in Wales. His father, Richard, was a master carpenter, originally from Carmarthen in Wales. Lewis John Rogers – referred to as Lew by his friends and colleagues – was born in Roma, Queensland on 15 August 1903.
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