Name
John (Jack) Sidney Roberts
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/01/1919
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
28155
Royal Engineers
G.H.Q. Signal Detachment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CITY OF PARIS CEMETERY, PANTIN
6. 19. 9.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 12 Oct 1892 in Hounslow son of Rev. Charles Herbert Roberts later of Nately Scures Rectory, Basingstoke. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1903-08. He married Kathleen Ella Fryer on 10 Jan 1917 in Southampton and they lived at 9 Bouverie Avenue, Salisbury with two children (twins) and then in Clifton, Bristol.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 10 Aug 1914 in Motorcyclist Section, Royal Engineers and entered France on 14 Aug 1914. Served as dispatch rider stationed at St Omer until 1916. He became messenger to the Commander in Chief, Sir Douglas Haig until the Armistice. He died in hospital in Paris of influenza and pneumonia.
Additional Information
Brother of Herbert Wallace Roberts who died in Italy in 1918 and is also commemorated on this memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
