Name
Herbert Wallace Roberts (MBE)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
Ministry of Munitions
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 15 Oct 1883 and baptised on 14 Nov 1883 in Enfield son of Rev. Charles Herbert and Margaret (Wallace) Roberts later of Nately Scures Rectory, Basingstoke. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1892-1900 and London University (BSc in Chemistry). He worked as an analytical chemist for De Beers dynamite factory in South Africa.
Wartime Service
Medically unfit for military service, he worked in munitions at Queensferry. He was sent to Italy in 1918 to inspect munitions factories but caught a chill and died from pneumonia. He was given a military funeral in Italy.
Additional Information
Brother of Corporal John Sidney Roberts who died on 27 Jan 1919 in Paris and is also commemorated on this memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
