John's Story.
Birkenhead News 25 September 1918KILLED ON RETURNING TO FRANCE.
Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts, of 11 Cranbourne Avenue, Birkenhead, have received the very regrettable news that their younger son, Second-Lieut. John Roberts, K.L.R., was killed in action on the 14th inst.
Twenty-four years of age, this young officer was always extremely keen in his work as a soldier, and his death is sincerely regretted by the officers and men of his battalion. He was an old Higher Elementary School boy, and after leaving school was in the offices of Messrs. Brodrick, Leitch, and Kendall, marine insurance brokers, Liverpool. In Sept., 1914, he joined the Liverpool “Pals” being thus amongst the earliest to take up arms against the enemy, and he saw considerable service in France, being out for about nineteen months, and taking part in the principal battles of the Somme.
He gained his commission last year, and after returning to France as an officer he was badly wounded in the left hand, and was invalided home. It was only on August 8th or 9th that he again went out to France, and on the 14th he fell.
The deceased’s eldest and only brother, 2nd Lieut. J. T. Roberts, Welsh Regt., has just come home from the front on leave. He joined the Forces in August, 1914, and, like his brother, has seen much fighting.
John's obituary in the Birkenhead News
