Percy Albert Roberts

PRIVATE PERCY ALBERT ROBERTS

10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

 

He was Born in 1895 in Walford

In 1911, the family were living at Warren Farm, Walford. His father was a butcher and a family

Between 1913 and 1920, the family moved to Marsh Farm, Sellack

He enlisted at Ross on Wye into the South Wales Borderers

He was transferred to the 10th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers who were deployed to France in 1916 in time to take part in the Battle of The Somme

On 26 September 1917 he was Killed in Action at Ypres, age 22

His body was never recovered

He is commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial near Ypres and on the Sellack War Memorial