3116 Corporal G (or S) Roberts, 1st Battalion the (Sherwood Foresters) Derbyshire Regiment. The battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing from Suez on 28 Nov 1899 and arriving in South Africa about 14 Dec 1899 and was sent to assist Sir W Gatacre, who had just suffered his reverse at Stormberg, deploying to Sterkstroom, and afterwards held Bushmanshoek. In Mar/Apr 1900 they joined the 21st Brigade under General Bruce Hamilton. They were on the right flank of the Army on the advance to Johannesburg and Pretoria and were engaged in the operations which culminated in Prinsloo's surrender. On 11/12 Jun 1900 they fought at the battle of Diamond Hill in the central Transvaal, east of Pretoria. During the latter part of 1900 and early months of 1901 the battalion did much marching. Corporal Roberts died of disease at 18 Stationary Hospital, Krugersdorp, Transvaal. He is also commemorated on the 1st Battalion (Sherwood Foresters) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Boer War memorial in the Church of St Mary, High Pavement, Nottingham, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/145916/).
Recorded as G Roberts on the cemetery memorial and on the South African Field Force Casualty Roll. Recorded as S Roberts on the 1st Battalion (Sherwood Foresters) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Boer War memorial in the Church of St Mary, Nottingham.
Recorded as G Roberts on the cemetery memorial and on the South African Field Force Casualty Roll. Recorded as S Roberts on the 1st Battalion (Sherwood Foresters) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Boer War memorial in the Church of St Mary, Nottingham.
3116 Corporal G (or S) Roberts, 1st Battalion the (Sherwood Foresters) Derbyshire Regiment. The battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing from Suez on 28 Nov 1899 and arriving in South Africa about 14 Dec 1899 and was sent to assist Sir W Gatacre, who had just suffered his reverse at Stormberg, deploying to Sterkstroom, and afterwards held Bushmanshoek. In Mar/Apr 1900 they joined the 21st Brigade under General Bruce Hamilton. They were on the right flank of the Army on the advance to Johannesburg and Pretoria and were engaged in the operations which culminated in Prinsloo's surrender. On 11/12 Jun 1900 they fought at the battle of Diamond Hill in the central Transvaal, east of Pretoria. During the latter part of 1900 and early months of 1901 the battalion did much marching. Corporal Roberts died of disease at 18 Stationary Hospital, Krugersdorp, Transvaal. He is also commemorated on the 1st Battalion (Sherwood Foresters) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Boer War memorial in the Church of St Mary, High Pavement, Nottingham, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/145916/).
Recorded as G Roberts on the cemetery memorial and on the South African Field Force Casualty Roll. Recorded as S Roberts on the 1st Battalion (Sherwood Foresters) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Boer War memorial in the Church of St Mary, Nottingham.
Recorded as G Roberts on the cemetery memorial and on the South African Field Force Casualty Roll. Recorded as S Roberts on the 1st Battalion (Sherwood Foresters) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Boer War memorial in the Church of St Mary, Nottingham.
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