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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
(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 Battalion’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 “good and plucky soldier” 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.
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 theĂ‚Â 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.Ă‚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.
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