Annie Florence Roberts was the daughter of John Cymro Roberts and Emma Roberts nee Cornish.

Parents:

John - Born 25.7.1845 Bridgend, Wales - Died 14.5.1910 Ballarat check ballarat

Parents: David Roberts and Ann Jones - Married in 1845 Wales

Married in 1878 to

Emma - Born April 1853 Ideford, Teignbridge District, Devon - Died 13.7.1923 Ballarat

Parents: Richard Cornish and Laura Strickland

Siblings:

Louisa Blanche - Born 25.5.1878 Ballarat - Died 15.8.1955 Mont Albert -Memorial 244606682 +

Celia Rose - Born 18.8.1881 Mount Egerton- Died 2.7.1933 Prahran - Memorial 212671883 +

(Married on 21.1.1911 to Frank Gordon Johnson)

David - Born 9.7.1883 Mount Egerton - Died 15.8.1953 Nunawading - Memorial 123936761

(Married in 1915 to Lily May Omara)

John Egerton - Born 5.11.1885 Mount Egerton - Died 1887 Mount Egerton

John Arthur - Born 13.11.1888 Mount Egerton - Died 2.2.1954 Brisbane - Memorial 254239484

(Married on 5.7.1920 to Eveline Maria Boyd)

Adeline Alice - Baptised 4.9.1890 Mount Egerton - Died 1890 Mount Egerton

Horace Bruce - Born 1891 Mount Egerton - Died 13.3.1948 St. Kilda East - Memorial 244606685

(Married in 1923 to Phoebe Lucy Barnes)

John Robert++ - Born 7.3.1894 Mount Egerton - Died 13.8.1915 Malta (World War 1 casualty)

(Father 226703062 Castlemaine - Mother 226703093)

William Charles - Born 1898 Mount Egerton - Died 29.11.1969 Hawthorn - Memorial 269159780

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++ Clarence Rupert check

+Photo on Ancestry

World War 1 Service

Annie enlisted on 17.7.1915 with the 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF

Annie spent much of her war service at sea, completing four round trips between Egypt or England and Australia in just 12 months. Affected by the heat she requested a transfer and was sent to India. For almost a year she was in charge of nurses on the ship 'Ellora', which transported troops, often severely ill, from the campaign in Mesopotamia (Iraq) to hospitals in and near Bombay (now Mumbai).

11.9.1919: Honoured Royal Red Cross (2nd Class), For service on hospital transports.

Annie Roberts died on 18.7.1958, at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne. Her remains were cremated at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.

Memorials: Ballarat Base Hospital Sisters who served King & Country. The Honour Board at St Peter's Church Eastern Hill in East Melbourne and with her brothers in the Ballarat Avenue of Honour (as Annie R Robert) and the Mt Egerton Primary School Roll of Honour.

An extensive history on Annie Roberts can be found on the Virtual War Memorial site.