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258862Pte Fred Roberts
British Army York and Lancaster Regiment
My paternal grandfather Fred Roberts was a blacksmith/farrier, whilst serving during the Great War. He was with the 2/4th of 2/5th York and Lancaster Regiment in 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division.
263766Pte. Fred Roberts
British Army York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Castleford, West Yorkshire
Fred Roberts (my paternal granddad) served in the York and Lancaster Regiment with 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division from 1916 until the end of the war, as far as I know.
112189Captain Frederick George Roberts MC, DCM
British Army 1/5th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Served in the Boer war with the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, as a sergeant. Awarded the DCM in 1900. In 1901 was promoted to Colour Sergeant in the 12th Mounted Infantry for further distinguished service in the field. Awarded the Military Cross for the defence of Dueidar (Egygt, 1916) when a Turkish force, 1,000 strong, with onegun, attacked Dueidar, the most advanced defensible post, which was held by 100 men of the 5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, under the command of Captain Roberts, 5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. The citation states that this officer, who throughout showed conspicuous skill and ability, succeeded in repelling two determined attacks on the position at 6.30 a.m. and 8.30 a.m. respectively. Both attempts cost the enemy dear. Served in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and France Retired 1923
238461Frederick Roberts
Royal Navy HMS Neptune
from:Portsmouth
Frederick Roberts was born in 1899 is remembered in memorials in St Wilfrid's Church, Buckland, Portsmouth. The record gives his role as 2 Canteen Ass., HMS Neptune. He died apparently in the first quarter of 1917 (England & Wales deaths 1837-2007). A note in the church records adds that he died after being invalided. He is not listed by CWGC, and the cause of death is not known.
239991Gnr. Frederick Paul Roberts MM
British Army 92nd Battery, B Coy. Royal Field Artillery
from:Far Cotton, Northampton
(d.9th July 1918)
Gunner Frederick Roberts was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in assisting to remove artillery guns during the German offensive of March 1918. Unfortunately, Gunner Roberts died of wounds caused by gas, on 9th July 1918, before the presentation of his award and his son, Frederick George L Roberts, was presented with the Medal by a General, and the young lad saluted.
205540Bdr. George Thomas Roberts
British Army King's Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Connahs Quay, Flints.
Trained at Morpeth 1915, ended up in the KSLI.Wounded in the leg and hand from shell fragments on the Somme.
228206Pte. Goronwy Cuffin Roberts MM.
British Army 1/5th Battalion Welsh Regiment
from:Abertysswg
Goronwy Roberts joined the 5th Battalion the Welsh Regiment on 15th of October 1915 three days before his 18th birthday. The following letter was sent from Hearson Camp before the battalion moved to East Anglia in November.
Hearson Camp, Monday
Dear Dad & Mam
Just a line to let you know that I am all right hoping you are all the same. I have not received a letter from you yet how is that I have sent you my address? We are not having a bad time down here. We have a cooked dinner every day & a decent breakfast we had sausage on Saturday, bacon on Sunday & bread & butter & cheese Monday morning. The tea is a mixture of cocoa and coffee it is a toss up which it is. There was no church parade on Sunday & it did not seem like Sunday at all, but I went to a small Weslayan chapel with Dared Thomas on Sunday night. I am orderly for the day at our hut, this is I have got to get the food from the cookhouse & wash the dishes after the chaps have had it, everybody has to do it in their turn. I shall be very glad if you could send me some cakes and ask Maggie has she got any to give away she said she would send me some. There is a draft going from here to Cambridge to make up the division for the Dardanelles. West is going with them. I have no more to say now. Hope you are all right. Remember me to Jon and Mag, Mailys and Dyfan. Please write soon. I am, Your loving Son, Goronwy.
206159Gunner Harold Pendleton Roberts
British Army 2nd Heavy Battery Artillery Group Royal Garrison Artillery
from:25 West Derby Road, Liverpool
(d.12th Jul 1916)
233792L/Cpl. Harry Roberts MID
British Army 41st Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Manchester
Harry Roberts was my grandfather. He joined up in August 1914, when he had just turned 18 and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps from the 7th Rifle Brigade on 18th February 1916 where he remained until his discharge in April 1919. He was Mentioned in Dispatches on 24th December 1917 after Passchendaele. Immensely proud of him, although he passed away before my brother or I were born. His memory will live on.
237629Spr. Henry Wood Roberts
Australian Imperial Force 1st Australian Tunneling Company
from:Stockport near Mallala, South Australia
Harry Roberts was my grandfather on my mother's side. It is quite possible he was at Hill63 and Ploegsteert. He was definitely at Hill 60 as he told me this. He spoke to me of other things to which I am unsure how it fits in with things.
I was in Ypres last year and that helped me understand some of what he told me. I never got to Ploegsteert but I plan to return to the area next year with my brother. We would like to find photos if possible of him. I also know he helped the people in Ypres as well
245885Pte. Herbert James Roberts
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Ampthill
(d.30th July 1917)
Private Herbert James Roberts, son of James & Martha Roberts of Barton, Bedfordshire; born in Barton, lived in Ampthill and enlisted in Luton. Served with the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cambridges Own Middlesex Regiment (service no.G/29541).
He was killed in action on 30th July 1917 age 38 years in France and Flanders and is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
247520Pte. Hugh Foulks Roberts
British Army Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1205666Pte. J. H. Roberts
Australian Imperial Force. att. 3rd Salvage Coy. 10 M.G. Coy
217844Pte. J. W. Roberts
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 2nd Bn Canadian Mounted Rifles
(d.30th Jul 1916)
Pte. J. Roberts served with the Canadian Mounted Rifles 2nd Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 30th July 1916 and is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne.
774Pte J.S. Roberts
British Army "A" Company 9th South Lancers
I have a letter from Pte J.S. Roberts dated March 27th, 1918. He was with "A" Company, 9th South Lancers, Salonica Forces, Greece. I am looking for further information concerning him, can anyone help?
246746Pte. James Roberts
British Army 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:3 Carlton Cross Street, Leeds
(d.8th May 1918 )
James Roberts was 18 years old.
255787Pte. James Roberts
British Army
from:Cross Villa Place, Newcastle
James Roberts is my great uncle. I believe he died in 1929 having suffered from diabetes and gas during his time in the war. I have no further information about him. His family were in the Salvation Army and his sister Wainer worked in the battlefields alongside William Booth's daughters. My father idolised him.
215632Lt. John Powe Roberts
Australian Imperial Force 9th Btn.
(d.28th Apr 1918)
John Powe Roberts, Lieutenant, served in the 9th Battalion Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force and died age 33, between the 25th and 28th April 1918. He is remembered at Jarrow Library and Walkers Ridge Cemetery ANZAC. Sp. Mem.19.
John's application for a Commission CM.Form A.22 dated 14th August 1914, lists earlier service as 12 years in the Durham Light Infantry with the rank of Sergeant and promotion to 2nd Lieutenant on the 1st October 1912 in 11th Infantry OC C Company. His civilian employment is recorded as Sanitary Engineer. He was born on the 18th October 1882 and was 32 at the time of enlistment. His application was approved on the 10th september 1914 and he was posted to D Company 9th AIF. His address is given as Flint Street, North Ipswich with his wife as next of kin at that address.
210574L/Cpl John Stephen Roberts
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Bermondsey
My grandfather, John Stephen Roberts, was born in Bermondsey, London 18th November 1898 He attested on the 8th August 1917 and was called forward on 16th February 1917 as Number 39541 He completed basic training in the 98th Training Reserve Battalion in Aldershot. Whilst in 98th TRB he was appointed Lance Corporal and passed his Army Certificate of Education 2nd class on. He was also on parade during 1917 for a visit by the King. He was transferred to the MGC and issued Number 132089. He was last in England on 29th March 1918. After this his pay book only shows location as 'Field'. Unfortunately I am unable to make out the names of those who signed his pay book during this time but at a guess they may include: LT G Thomas LT G Lindsay At the end of the war my grandfather served with the army of occupation near Cologne, Germany and was eventually demobbed on 14th November 1919. Unfortunately I have no details of the Company or Battalion he served in and am looking for information that may help identify his unit.
216937Cpl. John Henry Roberts
British Army 8th Btn Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:Leicester
(d.15th Feb 1917)
John Henry Roberts was from Leicester, his family lived at one time in a street just off Welford Road, near the prison, the house next to the old Turks Head pub. John was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Jane Roberts. At he time of his death in February 1917 his father had already passed away but his mother was living at 14 Oakfield Road. John Henry is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.
222492Pte. John Thomas Roberts
British Army 1/8th (Ardwick) Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
My Grandfather John Roberts joined up in August 1914. He served in Egypt, Gallipoli, Suez and at Ypres. He was demobbed on the 6th of March 1919 at Heaton Park.
221979Pte. John Roberts
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Ferns, Co Wexford
(d.31st July 1916)
John Roberts is my great uncle, my grandmother always had a drawer with his medals which she kept really safe, as children we would get a sneak of them every now and then.
I don't know an awful lot about him other than he died at 16 years of age in the Battle of the Somme and is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery in France. He died on the 31st July 1916 and one day I hope to visit his grave. He was so young to serve in the army and too young to die. I have no photos of him and the medals over the years have been mislaid when my grandmother died which was such a shame.
224142Pte. John T. Roberts
British Army 1/8th (Ardwick) Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
Jack Roberts was my Grandfather
227009Pte. John Owen Roberts
British Army 24th (enbighshire Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.4th May 1917)
John was the son of Owen and Ann Roberts, Chweffordd Farm, Denbigh.
246747Pte. John Roberts
British Army 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:Cropton, Pickering, North Yorkshire
(d.14th September 1916 )
John Roberts was 26 years old.
262270Pte. John Henry Roberts
British Army 2/4th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment
from:Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire
(d.29th Sep 1918)
John Roberts was born on Tuesday 28th July 1891 at 294, Queen Street, Swinton in the Borough of Rotherham. He was one of 11 children born to Henry Leach Roberts and Jane Roberts. Census records indicate that 9 of these children died and that the only other survivor was a sister, Susannah, who was about 8 years John Henry's junior. John left school to become a miner at Thrybergh Hall Colliery where he worked as a trammer (a trammer loaded rocks or coal into four-wheeled barrows known as trams).
On Thursday 28th of May 1915, at the age of 23 years and 10 months, he signed up for war service with the York and Lancaster Regiment at their depot in Pontefract. He was posted immediately to Sunderland to engage in coastal protection duties. Sunderland was an industrial town noted, among other things, for shipbuilding and was a target for enemy action.
It seems he met his wife, Frances, some time after his arrival in Sunderland, and they married at Hooton Roberts in the parish church of Kilnhurst on Monday 6th of August 1917. Their daughter Mary was born on Friday 12th July 1918.
On Friday 30th of August 1918, John was posted to 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment and embarked with the British Expeditionary Force to France. A day later however, he was transferred to C Company, 2/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment, and on Sunday 29th of September 1918, he was killed in action during the Battle for Havrincourt where machine-guns, automatic rifles, and trench mortars were used against British troops. He is buried in the Grand Ravine British War Cemetery, Havrincourt.
262656Pte. John Henry Roberts
British Army 2/4th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment
from:Kilnhurst
(d.29th Sep 1918)
John Roberts was born on Tuesday 28th of July 1891 at 294 Queen Street, Kilnhurst in the Borough of Rotherham. He was one of 11 children born to Henry Leech Roberts and Jane Roberts. Census records indicate that 11 of these children died and that the only other survivor was a sister, Susannah, who was about 8 years his junior. When he left school, John worked as a trammer at Thrybergh Hall Colliery.
On Friday 28th of May 1915, at the age of 23 years and 10 months, he signed up for war service at Pontefract and was posted, apparently immediately, to the 3rd Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment based in Sunderland. Some time after his arrival in the town, he met local girl Frances Wright. As a soldier, John was categorised as Class W which meant that he was returned to his civilian job as a miner until the army were ready to recall him to the colours. On Monday 6th of August 1917, John and Frances married at the Parish Church in Hooton Roberts and they returned to Sunderland where they lived with Frances's family. On Friday 12th of July 1918, their daughter Mary was born.
John was recalled to his unit and embarked with the British Expeditionary Force to France on Friday 30th of August 1918 and on Monday 2nd of September 1918 was transferred permanently to C Company, 2/4th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. Ten days later, the Regiment took part in the Battle of Havrincourt, where they broke through the Hindenburg Line. On Sunday 29th of September 1918, while fighting in Havrincourt, he was killed in action. He is buried in the Grand Ravine British War Cemetery next to Havrincourt Wood.
213537Pte. Joseph Roberts
British Army 1/24th Btn. London Regiment
from:Wrangway, Wellington
(d.8th Jun 1917)
My great uncle Joseph Roberts served during the First World War. I am unsure of when he joined and details of his service as I am currently researching him at the moment. The only reason I know Of him is due to the fact I was given some of his letters that he wrote to my Great, great grandmother whilst he was in the trenches by my grandfather. I have found out that he died during the Battle of Messines but he is on the Menin Memorial gate as they did not recover his body. My grandfather knows little information hence why I am currently researching.
2194732nd Lt. Lionel John Roberts
British Army 16th (St Pancras) Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:88 Mansfield Road, Gospel Oak, London
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
Lionel John Roberts was my Great Uncle, the second born son of Edwin James Roberts and his wife Caroline. He had an older brother, Edwin, and younger brother(my father, Charles Thomas) and one sister. He was born in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1895 where my Grandfather was born and married my Grandmother who came from Alderney. They decided to bring their young family to England where there appeared to be better prospects for work and education and settled in the Gospel Oak Area, living at 88 Mansfield Road. My Grandfather was a builder/plasterer.
After war was declared, Lionel who was learning to be a teacher, decided, like so many others,to join up at 20 years old. On 8th March 1916, the Battalion arrived in France. He was reported missing on 3rd September 1916, lost in the Battle of the Somme aged 21 years. He has no known grave but his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial along with over 72000 others who also have no known grave. I would like to know more about the particular battle that took place on the day he died.
As a young man, he liked to draw and as a child, I was fascinated by his sketch book that contained carefully drafted pen and ink drawings. They were my inspiration to follow suit and I owe him my gratitude for showing me the way. God Bless you Lionel. You were so brave.
245010Pte. Norman Leslie Roberts
British Army 7th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:Camborne
(d.16th Aug 1917)
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