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Arthur Roberts

British Army 2/5th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

from:Holderness Road, Hull

(d.27th November 1917)

2/5th KOYLI arrived at Bertincourt on 27th of November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. Eighty-five men of the battalion were killed here today. One was Private Arthur Roberts, aged 18. Reaching that birthday earlier this year, he was called up. He immediately married his girlfriend Eliza Hedges. Today was his first, and last, day in action.



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