ROBERTS, William
Service Numbers: | 923, 340 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
Born: | Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom., 1887 |
Home Town: | Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Cruncie School [sic] |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 19 August 1916 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
10 Apr 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 923, 1st Field Company Engineers, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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10 Apr 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 923, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
19 Aug 1916: | Involvement 340, 1st Field Company Engineers, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 340 awm_unit: 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Second Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-19 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
[Births Jun 1887 Roberts William Liskeard 5c 57]
He was a Second Corporal with the 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers. He was 29 and the son of William Roberts, of "The Firs", Carminow, Bodmin, Cornwall, England, and the late Amelia Roberts.
Emigrated aged 25 years.
He is remembered on the Lanhydrock War Memorial which is in the form of a wall-mounted plaque inside Lanhydrock's St Hydroc Parish Church, Bodmin, Cornwall which itself is within the National Trust estate of Lanhydrock.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Second corporal was, until 1920, a former rank in the Royal Engineers and Army Ordnance Corps of the British Army. Second corporals wore one rank chevron like lance-corporals, but unlike the latter, which was an appointment, they held full non-commissioned officer rank.