Name
Thomas Roberts
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Guardsman
20352
Grenadier Guards
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 5 to 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born in 1890 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and was baptised on 8 Apr 1890 in Hoddesdon son of James John and Esther (Harris) Roberts and living in 87 High Street, Hoddesdon in 1891, 1901 and in 1911. He was a confectioner like his father.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at St Pancras and was killed in action in the trenches near Vermelles during the Battle of Loos.
Additional Information
Thomas is also commemorated on a headstone in Hoddesdon Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS SON OF
JAMES & ESTHER ROBERTS
KILLED IN ACTION AT LOOS OCT 8TH 1915 AGED 25 YEARS
JAMES & ESTHER ROBERTS
KILLED IN ACTION AT LOOS OCT 8TH 1915 AGED 25 YEARS
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
