Gordon William Rogers

Gordon Rogers was shot during a robbery in Guildford on 21 February 1991.

He was shot in the leg and taken to hospital where he later died on 7 March 1991 from a direct result of his injuries. Before his death he had been able to provide the police with a description of the robbers.

He was shot during an ambush outside a branch of the Midland Bank at Woodbridge Hill in Surrey. He was shot in the leg when he refused to hand over a bag containing £25,000. Two men escaped with the money in a Vauxhall Carlton which hit was thought might have been driven by a third man. However, they quickly abandoned the vehicle for another one..

He had been with a Security Express vehicle outside the bank in the morning.

The investigation into his murder was called Operation Smoke.

Gordon Rogers had been from Calmore and was a divorced father of four. It was noted that he, along with another man, had received the Queen's Gallantry Medal two years earlier for foiling a robber armed with a sawn-off shotgun.