Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal W. A. Roberts, Royal Artillery, who died of wounds on 1 November 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (11508 A.Cpl. W. A. Roberts. ‘A’ By: 86/Bde: R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (11508 Bmbr: W. A. Roberts. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (11508 Cpl. W. A. Roberts. R.A.) good very fine (4) £460-550

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

William Albert Roberts was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Birmingham. He served with ‘A’ Battery, 86th Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front, and was awarded the Military Medal in the 1916 Birthday Honours’ List, one of the first M.M.s ever Gazetted, before transferring to ‘D’ Battery, 317th Brigade. Severely wounded in action on 30 October 1917, he died of wounds two days later on 1 November 1917, and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.