Harold Lancelot ROBERTS

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ROBERTS, Harold Lancelot

Service Numbers:	839, 65149
Enlisted:	7 November 1914
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	8th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 31 October 1892
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Hairdresser
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 April 1977, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 1 Service

7 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 839, 8th Light Horse Regiment
13 Apr 1915:	Involvement Private, 839, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
13 Apr 1915:	Embarked Private, 839, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
21 Sep 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 8th Light Horse Regiment
7 Jun 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 839, 8th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Kantara for Melbourne on board HT Malta
6 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 839, 8th Light Horse Regiment

World War 2 Service

25 May 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 65149
29 Jun 1942:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, 65149

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Harold Lancelot Roberts (Service No:839) served in the AIF from 7 November 1914 to 6 October 1919 with 8th Light Horse Regiment at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Egypt, Sinai, Palestine and Syria. In WWII he served with 2 Battalion VDC before enlisting in Sydney in the RAAF on 25 May 1942 at No 2 Recruiting Centre Sydney as an Aircraftman I (Service No:65149). ACI Roberts attended No 2 Initial Training School (ITS) and was attached to School of Administration Bradfield Park at Discharge on 29 June 1942.

Harold was born in Willenabrina via Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1892, seventh of ten children of Thomas (Tom) Roberts (b1849 in Brighton, South Australia) and Kate Sprigg (b1858 in Clarendon, South Australia). Tom was a Labourer in Morphett Vale and Farmer in Minlacowie in South Australia in the 1870s. Tom and Kate married in Morphett Vale in 1878 and in 1889 moved to Willinabrina, Victoria where they raised their family and Tom was a Farmer.

Harold was a Farm Labourer and Farmer at Brentwood in Willenabrina, where he returned following his service in WWI. In 1920 in Melbourne he married Ivy Bessie Matilda Wallace (b1899 in Melbourne, Victoria) and lived for a short time in Willenabrina before settling in Melbourne where Harold was a Hairdresser/Barber. The family lived behind the shop (Hair Salon and Tobacconsit) and in 1942 Harold joined his two sons in the RAAF. Following Ivy's death in 1949, Harold remarried in 1951 to Nancy LLoyd Clarke (b1910 in Romsey, Victoria). Harold died in 1977 and Nacy in 1994.

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