ROBERTS, Albert Edward
| Service Number: | 10337 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 11th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Seddon, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wood machinist |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 5 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 10337, 10th Field Company Engineers | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 10337, 10th Field Company Engineers, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 10337, 10th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 5 Oct 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 10337, 11th Field Company Engineers, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 10337 awm_unit: 10 Field Company awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Albert Edward Roberts, was living in Seddon Victoria when he enlisted. His father had passed away when he was 2 years of age and his mother Elizabet Merchant Roberts had raised him in Ballarat. He was a prominent member of the Footscray Swimming and Rowing Clubs. He was married to Florence May Roberts and the father of two small children.
His brothers both served in the 13th Field Company Engineers, 2650 Sapper Thomas Matthew Roberts, was killed in action 17 November 1916, aged 29. The other brother, 2652 Pte George Ernest Roberts, was severely wounded by shrapnel in the thighs, chest and right arm in September 1916 and evacuated to England. He was returned to Australia for family reasons by authority of the Defence Department, 6 June 1918.
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