£120
A FIRST WORLD WAR CASUALTY TRIO TO THE RIFLE BRIGADE. A Great War Trio comprising 1914-15 Star named to S-S673 Pte H.C. Roberts Rif Brig. War Medal and Victory Medal similarly named. With a silver watch chain and fob and silver and enamel 'Shoreditch's Schools Sports Association' Fob. Herbert George Roberts was born c.1887 in Plymouth. The 1891 census gives an address in Roscoe Street London. Enlisting at Shoreditch he joined the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade travelling to France on the 19th May 1915. Reported missing in September 1916 a report from another soldier via the Red Cross gave the family a report that must have been difficult to read 'I saw a man named Roberts wounded in a raid at Vermelles about Sept 26th. He was lying on the ground and seemed very bad as I crawled past him. It was dark but I am sure it was Roberts. He was a very slim built fair man, of about 30, and came from London, I heard nothing about him afterwards.' A date of 25th August is given for his death, at the time he was with the 2nd Battalion. Roberts has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. He was 33 years old. With documents, medal delivery boxes and photographs. Mounted for display with copied research including an image of the recipient as a young man and a copy image of his Father.
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