Frederick James Roberts

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Frederick James Roberts was born in Iwerne Minster, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 28th February 1891. He was the son of Frank Roberts, a Stationary Engineman, and Mary Eliza Roberts née Wareham. He set sail for Canada on 8th July, 1910 aboard the SS Victorian bound for Montreal. On 2nd December 1912 he married Ada Ethel Bryant at York, Ontario, Canada. He enlisted in Toronto on 29th January 1916 as a Private with the 20th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry (Service No. 679171). He eventually arrived in France & Flanders on 9 Mar 1917 and was killed while serving in the trenches near Lens in Northern France on 18th August 1917 and was buried at Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France (grave id. I.J.14). He is remembered on the Iwerne Minster War Memorial, Shaftesbury, Dorset. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals. His wife was in receipt of a widow's pension. His brother, Ernest Frank Roberts, served and survived the conflict.