Name
(Herbert Edwin) Arthur Roberts
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/03/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal/Acting Corporal/Corporal
14897
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NOYON NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot I, Row D, Grave 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Watford Cross, O/S St Michael And All Angels Church, Watford (*1) St Michael And All Angels Church Memorial, Watford (*1), Not on the Aldenham memorials
Pre War
Son of Margaret Emily (nee HAWKER) and the late William ROBERTS; husband of Rose Dorothy BARNES (formerly ROBERTS, nee SEAL) of Watford.
His parents married 1892 in the Watford district. William died 1910 in Watford aged 44, and was buried 31 December in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Margaret died 8 June 1949 in Watford aged 79.
Herbert was born 8 September 1896 in Aldenham, Herts, and baptised 1 November 1896 at St John the Baptist, Aldenham. He married 1914 in the Watford district, and resided in Watford. Rose remarried 1921 in the Watford district to Frederick G BARNES, and died 1988 in the Watford district aged 92.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Letchmore Heath, Herts, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a grocer’s boy aged 14, he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly 6255 Middlesex Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
*1 Believed to appears as Arthur Roberts on these memorials. Unfortunately, Herbert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There are articles about Herbert in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 6 April 1918, 13 April 1918 and 18 May 1918 (including a Death announcement); plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 29 March 1919.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
