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Roberts, L O



Lawrence Osmond Roberts

Corporal Lawrence Osmond Roberts
1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

Photographed at Bourne Park Camp, near Canterbury, on 22 June 1917 "on a hot day". They had left the island about three weeks earlier, and they stayed there until they left for France on 26 September.


Number 95 Private L O Roberts was born in 1897, was from St Martin's and had been promoted to Corporal by the time he was sent to England for demobilisation in April 1919. He was the son of Lawrence & Annie Roberts

 

Courtesy of the Priaulx Library