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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.
Pte. William Roberts
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.15th Jun 1917)
William Roberts was born in 1894, son of Amelia and Caleb Roberts.
William recorded in his diary on the 1st of July 1916: "“The short but terrible rush through the fierce curtain fire with men falling on all sides, I shall never forget. High explosive shells fell all around us. The sights I saw are too terrible to write about and men almost blown to pieces.. I saw dead and wounded lying side by side. Some were moaning and others had so far lost their reason that they were laughing and singing." http://www.dlidurham.org.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/02-The%20First%20Day.pdf
2nd Lt. William Roberts
British Army 7th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Denbigh
(d.18th Sept 1918)
William was the son of William and Emma Roberts, 8 Clifton Terrace, Denbigh.
Cpl. William Owen Roberts
British Army 13th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.22nd April 1918)
William Owen was the son of Mr Robert Roberts who was on the staff of the North Wales Asylum.
Pte William John Roberts
British Army 10th Battalion Welch Regiment
from:34 Gwernifor Street, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan,
(d.2nd Aug 1917)
William Roberts served with the 10th Battalion, Welch Regiment.
William Roberts
British Army Royal Army Service Corps
My Grandfather, William Roberts, born 1899, Ruthin, Wales, was in the Royal Army Service Corps in the battle of Dunkirk. He was captured by the Nazi and spent five years as a POW, in Poland. He was also in the Army in 1918 in Ebrington Barracks in Londonderry but this part of his war records have not been located by us.
Sgt. William Owen Roberts
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from: Dublin
(d.15th Nov 1918)
Serjeant Roberts was the Son of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, of 88, Henllan St., Denbigh; husband of Marie Roberts, of 5, Ringsend Rd., Dublin. Born in Wales. Served in the South African War. (In the same grave is also buried Mrs. Paulina Catherina French.). His brother Edward Roberts also fell.
He was 39 when he died and is buried in The Hague Roman Catholic Cemetery in the Netherlands.
William Ivor Roberts
British Army 22nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Liverpool
My granddad, William Roberts, served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and machine Gun Corps in the First World War. He never spoke of his service, not even to his wife. I have only vague memories of him as died only 4 years after I was born, I've been researching my family history and found out about his service.
Fus. William Roberts
British Army 5th (Flintshire) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Rhuddlan
William Roberts served with the 5th (Flintshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Pte William Joseph Roberts
British Army 6th Btn King's Shropshire Light Infantry
(d.16th Aug 1917)
Pte. William Roberts
British Army 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Llanllechid
(d.4th Apr 1918)
Sgt. Irvene Robertshaw
British Army 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment
Irvene Robertshaw was discharged on the 18th of April 1916 as time expired
Pte. James Robertshaw
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment
from:Lily Hall, Heptonstall
(d.21st November 1917)
Jim Robertshaw was my great uncle. We have letters he wrote to my grandma and great grandma while serving in the Great War. One was written while having a short rest in an orchard. He spoke of having come across friends from the same village while in a battle and witnessing them being killed. He described the farms and land and expressed a wish to be able to farm similar land after the war, when he got back home. No matter how many times we read them, we cry, it is so sad. Unfortunately, he was killed on 21st of November 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, I am visiting Cambrai and the memorial to pay my respects a day or two before the 100th anniversary of his death. He will always be remembered.
Pte. Walter Robertshaw
British Army 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:50 Victoria Road, London
(d.12th Oct 1918)
Walter Robertshaw was born in 1886, the son of Hillas and Catherine Elizabeth Robertshaw, both from Bradford. Although both his father and brother worked in the wool industry, Hillas was apprenticed in the printing industry and worked as a compositor (typesetter). Walter attended Bradford Grammar School only briefly, from 1899 to 1901 between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, living with his widowed father and two siblings, all at school, at Springfield Terrace. Afterwards he worked at the School as Student Assistant in the Art Department, until he was elected to a Bradford Local Art Exhibition which he took up at the Royal School of Art (now the Royal College), South Kensington, London in Autumn 1908. In the 1911 census he is enumerated as an "art student", living with his newly-married elder brother Joseph, a civil servant, in Mill Hill, north-west London. There is no record of what Walter studied for the nine terms until he graduated with the standard ARCA diploma in 1913, when he was living in Lilyville Road, Fulham, south-west London. At some point he secured an appointment as Art Master at the now defunct Kidderminster School of Art.Â
He served with the 11th Worcesters at Thessalonika, Greece, and died in hospital there of pneumonia in October 1918.
Robertson
Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Lt Robertson
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
VAD. Robertson
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 46 Stationary Hospital
Sister. Robertson
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 16 Stationary Hospital
VAD. Robertson
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Pte. A. C. Robertson
Australian Imperial Force. 3rd Salvage Coy.
Pte. Alexander Robertson
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
from:Leith
(d.31st Jan 1915)
Alexander Robertson, Private 11105, died of wounds, aged 21. He was the son of Alexander Robertson of Leith. He lies in Dickebusch Old Cemetery.
Sgt. Archibald Wilson Robertson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Gnr. Christopher Robertson
British Army 35th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Dunbar, Haddington
(d.21st May 1916)
Christopher Robertson died of wounds in Flanders.
Capt. Clement Robertson VC.
British Army Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:South Africa
(d.4th Oct 1917)
Clement Robertson's father, a captain in the Royal Artillery, was serving in South Africa when Clement was born in 1890. The family was from Ireland and Clement grew up in Delgany, although he went to school at Haileybury before attending Trinity College, Dublin.
Clement was 26 years old, and an acting Captain in The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, British Army, Special Reserve, Tank Corps during the First World War when he was awarded the VC.
"On 4 October 1917 at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Captain Robertson led his tanks in attack under heavy shell, machine-gun and rifle fire over ground which had been ploughed by shell-fire. He and his batman had spent the previous three days and nights going back and forth over the ground, reconnoitering and taping routes, and, knowing the risk of the tanks missing the way, he now led them on foot, guiding them carefully towards their objective, although he must have known that this action would almost certainly cost him his life. He was killed after the objective had been reached, but his skilful leading had already ensured success."
He was buried at Oxford Road Cemetery, Belgium, 2 miles north-east of Ypres. Robertson is also commemorated in his parish church at Delgany, County Wicklow, in Delgany Golf Club, of which he was a founder member, where his name is the first on the President's Cup and also on one of the panels on the walls of the entrance hall of the 1937 Reading Room, Front Square, Trinity College.
Pte. David Robertson
British Army Gordon Highlanders
from:Camelon, Scotland
David was born in 1881, fought in the 2nd Boer War, then worked in a local iron foundry before joining the 821st Area Employment Company of the Gordon Highlanders. My research indicates this was 1917, but I have been unable to verify this without a nominal roll. David married in 1918, and moved to Australia in 1924, where he lived until his death in 1947.
Pte. David Robertson
British Army 9th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:15 Hinckley Road, Burbage
(d.13th July 1916)
David Robertson was born in Dull, Perthshire but moved to Burbage, Leicestershire and was employed to work on the Waterworks Scheme, where he was a foreman. David was married to Hilda Louisa Wright of Burbage and they had a baby daughter, Hilda Jessie when he enlisted.
He served with the 9th Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment and died of wounds on 13th July 1916, having lost both legs some hours earlier in a blast. He was buried with full military honours on 14th July 1916 at Mericourt L'Abbe cemetery, near Amiens.
Sadly, his widow and child never managed to visit his grave, but in more recent years a number of his grandchildren and great grandchildren have visited to pay their respects, including a visit this year, to mark the 100th anniversary of his death.
David had three younger brothers who also served in the War, including George Robertson who won the Military Medal with Bar for bravery in the Royal Navy. Thankfully, his brothers all survived the war.
L/Cpl. David Elder Robertson
British Army 8th Btn. B Coy, 5 Platoon. Black Watch
from:Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
(d.3rd May 1917)
Great Uncle David Robertson was born in Inveresk, Musselburgh, at the end of 1889. After school he worked on the railways and as a miner. He was married early 1915 and volunteered on 2nd of June 1915. He joined the training company of 8th Black Watch at St Lucia Barracks, Bordon. A letter he wrote home just after 3 weeks manoeuvres without shelter in bad weather and little sleep (being a L/Cpl) made him determined to lose his stripe and get to the front. Little did he know when he wrote on 26th of September 1915 that his unit and 9th Scottish Division, had been launched the day before at Loos and would suffer terrible casualties. By mid-October, he was with 8th Black Watch near Zillebeke, opposite the infamous Hill 60. He survived a week of hell at Longueval where 8th Black Watch assaulted with 739 all ranks and only 171 came out, right through to Arras, April 1917. But on 3rd of May 1917, a poorly ordered assault on Greenland Hill did for him and he died that day. He is remembered on the Arras War Memorial.
2/Lt. Douglas Forbes Robertson
British Army 8th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.26th Sep 1916)
Douglas Forbes Robertson, Second Lieutenant, served in the 8th Battalion after initial spell in the 15th Reserve Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died of wounds age 26 on the 26th September 1916. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension. His medal card shows the award of the War and Victory Medals and that he died of wounds.
Douglas was born in Jarrow 1890, son of Hugh Robertson of Westfield House, Jarrow and the late Sarah Ann Robertson nee Rowland. In the 1911 census the family is living at Westfield House with Hugh(66) a Theatre Proprietor and Sarah(55) married for 37 years. They had 11 children of whom 9 survived but only 3 are still living at home. Eliza Ann(35) and Rachel Hannah(27) with Douglas Forbes(20) a dental student. (All unmarried) There are also two domestic servants.
2 Lt Frederick Charles Robertson
British Army 4th Btn Lincolnshire Regiment
Drvr. George Robertson
British Army 173rd Brigade, A Â Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.21st March 1918)
Driver George Roberts is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France, Panel 7-10.
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