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Pte. Philip Arthur George Roberts
British Army Norfolk Regiment
from:Norfolk
Pte. R. Roberts
British Army
from:Jarrow
R. Roberts is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Ralph Roberts
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
L Cpl Robert George Duncan Roberts
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Amble, Northumberland
(d.7th Oct 1917)
Roberts, Robert, George, Duncan. Lance Corporal, 19/93, Died on 7th October 1917. Aged 33 years.
Buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery, in grave II. D. 20.
Son of the late John Hooson Roberts and Mary Roberts, of Amble, Northumberland.
CWGC records show him as serving with the 24th Tyneside Irish Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte Robert Verney Roberts
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.11th Jul 1916)
Roberts, Robert, Verney. Private 19/495, Killed in Action on 11th July 1916.
Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Spr. Robert Cadwaladr Roberts
British Army 128th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:5 Blast Road, Brymbo, Nr Wrexham. Wales
My Great Grandfather Robert Cadwaldar Roberts, volunteered for military service on 3 Feb 1915 at Wrexham,Denbighshire, Wales. He was Born 1886 in Yspytty, Denbighshire. North Wales. At time of joining up he was a married man with 3 young children. 5 Blast Road, Brymbo, Nr Wrexham. Wales. And a Master Carpenter/Waggon Maker.
By the 12 Feb 1915 he was with the Royal Engineers at Chatham for training. He remained with the same unit until after the war. Was not sent home until 18/3/1919 and discharged on to reservists list 30/3/1919. Between 4/11/1916 and 18/3/1919 his service records show he was only sent home to the UK on leave once. between 6/11/1918 to 20/11/1918.
Pte. Robert Roberts
British Army 6th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
(d.8th Oct 1916)
Robert Roberts served in the 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment and died on the 8th October 1916. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and at His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Robert was born in Jarrow 1890, son of Hugh and Alice Roberts. In the 1911 census, Robert(21) is single and an assistant Pork Butcher living at 31 Staple Road, Jarrow, home of Henry and Charlotte Abel (Germany Residents). His sister Alice(23) single, is also resident as a Domestic Servant.
In the 1901 census the family is living at 68 Stead Street, Jarrow with his mother Alice(52) widow, 5 children and 2 boarders. The 3 sons are Henry(25), John(23) both labourers in the shipyard and Robert(11) at school. The two daughters are Jessica(17) a domestic servant and Alice (13) at school. The boarders both work as labourers in the shipyard.
Rfmn. Robert Roberts
British Army 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Robert Roberts served with the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade and died on 25th September 1915. He is remembered at the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Cpl. Robert Roberts
British Army 17th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Menai Bridge, Anglesey
As far as I can ascertain my father, Robert Roberts, was serving with the Denbighshire Yeomanry at the outbreak of WW1. At some point thereafter he became involved with 17th Royal Welsh Fusiliers and in September 1917 was reported as having been wounded in action.
He survived the war but never talked to me about his service nor the severe wound he suffered in combat. How I wish I could talk to him now about his experience, which I am fairly certain involved his presence at the Third Battle of Ypres.
Sgt. Robert A Roberts
British Army 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
(d.16th Sep 1916)
Pte. Samuel Roberts
British Army 8th Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment
(d.29th Jul 1916)
Samuel Roberts was a great great uncle of mine that died in the battle of Somme on the 29th of July 1916 at the age of 31.
His parents was Hannah & William Roberts, they lived in Sheffield on Bailey street and he is buried in France.
Pte. Spencer Harry Roberts
British Army 13th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:Selly Park, Birmingham
(d.24th September 1918)
Pte. Stanley Victor Roberts
British Army 16th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Brighton, Sussex
(d.6th November 1917)
Pte. Thomas Roberts
British Army 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:North Newton
(d.26th Aug 1914)
Thomas Roberts was born in 1894 in St Helens, Lancashire to John and Eliza Banfield Roberts, nee Pearce.
In 1901 at the age of 5 he was living in Bull Street, Creech St Michael with his parents John and Eliza with his brothers Medford, George Henry, Thomas and William and sisters Annie and Edith who was a baby. John Roberts, his father was a general labourer on the railway and was from Tiverton in Devon. Eliza was from North Newton in Somerset. In 1911 Thomas was living in Churchill Cottage, North Newton and was at 15 years old a farm labourer. By that time they were joined by 4 more siblings, Wilfred, Margaret, Melvyn and Amy.
Thomas joined the Somerset Light Infantry and was with the 1st Battalion. Sadly, Thomas was the first of our village soldiers to die on just the 24th August 1914, just 20 days after the beginning of the war. His Medal card tells that he was assumed dead on the 26th August 1914. Thomas was awarded the 14 Star, the British Medal and the Victory Medal. He was also awarded the Clasp, which was awarded to men who were under fire during the first four months of the war.
Pte. Thomas Roberts
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.25th January 1915)
Thomas was the son of Robert and Anne Roberts, Llanfwrog, Ruthin, Denbs; husband of Frances Jane Roberts and father to their six children, Henllan Street, Denbigh.
Pte. Thomas John Roberts
British Army 13th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.10th July 1916)
Thomas was the son of Mrs Elizabeth Williams, 123 Henllan Street, Denbigh.
L/Cpl. Thomas John Roberts
British Army 1st Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
(d.9th December 1916)
Thomas John Roberts joined up under age.
Pte. Thomas W. Roberts
British Army 10th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales
(d.10th November 1917)
Tom Roberts died in France.
Gnr. Thomas Kingley Roberts
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Pendleton
(d.18th May 1917)
Cpl. Thomas Herbert Roberts
British Army 6th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Chorlton, Manchester
(d.6th Jul 1916)
Thomas Roberts served with the 1st City Pals and 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment.
Cpl. Tudor Aled Roberts
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Oswestry
My grandfather Tudor Roberts was shot by friendly fire in February 1916, possibly on the Somme. He was shot in a trench when a colleague's gun discharged. The bullet entered his back, went through a cigarette case, and emerged through his chest. Miraculously, he survived and later returned to the front.
Pte. W Morris Roberts
British Army 16th Btn. D Company Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Llanrug
The Oxfam Shop in Abergavenny were given a book, an Antiphonarium Romanum from The Chapelle D' Armentieres dated 1901. The book is inscribed "Souvenir de la guerre 1914 - 1918, W Morris Roberts, Ty Fry, Llanrug, Caernarvonshire , Private 43821 RWF. This volume was picked up in the trenches, close to the ruins of the above place in March 1918 while holding the line on that sector".
Fitter W. V. Roberts
British Army 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.29th June 1917)
W.V. Roberts is buried in Hazebrouk Communal Cemetery, Grave III.D.7.
Pte. Wallace Roberts
British Army 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:Denbigh
(d.26th April 1918)
Wallace was the husband of Marie Roberts, 49 Chapel Street, St Helens.
William "Jack" Roberts
British Army 8th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Glan Gors Farm, Prenteg
(d.5th Apr 1916)
William Roberts was from Glangors Farm, Prenteg (between Beddgelert and Porthmadog). He enlisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, but was killed in Mesopotamia (Iraq) on 5 April 1916, aged 26. His name is commemorated on the memorial in Basra. A brother, John, was also wounded in the First World War but survived.
Pte. William Roberts
British Army 8th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.13th Apr 1917)
William Roberts, Private 16491, served in the 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment and died between the 9th and 13th April 1917. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow and Beaurains Road Cemetery, Beaurains, Ronville Military Cemetery, Memorial 10. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medal. He was born and lived in Jarrow.
Pte. William W. Roberts
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:England
(d.29th May 1916)
Private William Roberts was executed for desertion on 29th May 1916 and is buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension in Bailleul, France.
The 4th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers had landed at Havre on the 13th August 1914 and Private Roberts joined the Battalion some three months later. At the end of May 1915 the Germans had possession following the 2nd Battle of Ypres and the Gas Attack of Bellewarde Lake and established positions which left an uncomfortable sag in the Ypres salient which the 3rd Division was tasked with a local straightening. At 1.30 a.m. on the 16th June 1915 the 4th Royal Fusiliers were in position with in front of them a wood with a trench guarding its western end. After the artillery bombardment which began at 2.50 a.m. two companies were able to advance and capture the German front line without much resistance but the position was different on the right when the two supporting companies of the Battalion pushed through the wood to the trench on the bank of the lake, advancing too quickly for the British artillery and sustaining casualties. After considerable loss the companies withdrew to a communication trench which they held for the rest of the day under heavy artillery fire with gas shells being freely used by the enemy. At the end of the day only a small amount of ground remained in the BattalionĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s hands and the losses had been heavy, with 15 officers and 376 men becoming casualties
Private Roberts was one of the wounded being shot in the head. After treatment and a period of convalescence he rejoined the Battalion in September 1915 for the second attack on Bellewaarde designed as a subsidiary attack to seek to take pressure off the main British effort to the South at Loos As part of the 3rd Division the Battalion was unable to make progress and again in the afternoon of 25th September was subjected to heavy German artillery fire on the position that had been captured followed by an advance of strong German bombing parties so the taken position perforce had to be abandoned. At some time Private Roberts left his comrades and went back some distance remaining away for some eight months until he was arrested in the village of Brandhoek some 8 kilometres west of Ypres. Following his arrest Private Roberts was kept at Locre, a quiet village sheltered by Kemmel Hill in the rest areas of the Kemmel-Wyteschaete front. However on the 9th May he managed to escape but was soon re-arrested, standing trial on the 20th May 1916.
Whilst his C.O. described him as a Ć¢ā‚¬Å“good and plucky soldierĆ¢ā‚¬Ā¯ until his wounding in June 1915, he had apparently made other attempts to desert and had received a death sentence on the 25th May 1915 commuted to imprisonment. He was shot at Locre at 3.45 a.m. on the 29th May 1916 aged 34 years.
Pte. William Henry Roberts
British Army 13th (Forest of Dean Pioneers) Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Deerhurst
(d.5th June 1916)
Pte. William Roberts
British Army 4th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Little Mountain, Buckley
(d.15th February 1919)
Sgt. William Owen Roberts
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.15th Nov 1918)
William Owen Roberts was from Denbigh, Wales. He was the eldest of 16 children of Isaac and Elizabeth Roberts, 88 Henllan Street, Denbigh. He married Marie Brabazon on the 23rd of December 1913 in Dublin. He had served in the South African War and the Chinese Boxer War. He was captured at the battle of Mons in October 1914 and held prisoner until the end of the war. He died of influenza in The Netherlands.
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