• Title
  NSW servicemen portraits, 1918-19 - Francis William Roberts
• Call number
  P1/Roberts, Francis William
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1918-1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  433222
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - 13 x 8 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Date of Birth: [1887 or 1888]
  School: Camberwell State School No.888 & Smith Melbourne College
  Date of Enlistment: 23.2.1916
  Trade or Calling: Bank clerk, later Orchardist
  Born in or near what Town: Albert Park Melb.
  Address prior to Enlistment:
  Rank, Number, Battalion, Distinctions: Pte 6874 C Coy 9th Platoon 21st Battalion 6th Brigade 2nd Div. AIF
  Casualties and where: Killed in action on Mont St Quentin France 1.9.1918
  Cemetery or Memorial Details: France 511 Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension
  Memorial Panel: 94
  Name & Address of Next of Kin: Mrs R.M. Roberts (Wife) ; Roberta Margaret Roberts, of 17 Hastings Rd., Upper Hawthorn, Victoria (Mother)
  Name and last address of Father: John Garibaldi Roberts of 17 Hastings Rd., Upper Hawthorn, Victoria
  Other relations: Cousin to Sergeant William Lennard Roberts regimental no.32 13th Light Horse Regiment killed at Gallipoli 27.11.1915
• General note
  
  For additional information, refer to the Australian War Memorial (online), Biographical Databases, First World War Nominal Roll
  War diary of Francis William Roberts held at ML MSS 1361 (and he was also compiling a glossary of Australian military slang - AWM)
  Digital order no:a872263
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Biographical information taken from reverse of photograph
• Name
  Roberts, Francis William
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  soldiers
  uniforms
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1495399

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