| Roberts | Frederick Charles | 92032 | Driver | QSA (4) DoL OFS LN Belf; KSA (2)
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | 53rd Battery, RFA |
| Roberts | Frederick F | 1503 | Bombardier | QSA (5)
Source: List of QSAs with the clasp Talana from the Talana book | 67th Battery, RFA |
| Roberts | Frederick F | 1503 | Bombardier | QSA (5) Tal DoL Tr LN SA01
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | 67th Battery, RFA |
| Roberts | Frederick George | 4930 | Sergeant | Prisoner 21 Jul 00 Honingspruit and released. Accidentally injured 3 Jul 01 Nylstroom. MC
Source: DCM recipients | Royal Scots Fusiliers |
| Roberts | Frederick Hugh Sherston | | Lieutenant | He died December 17th, 1899, of wounds received in action two days previously at the battle of Colenso. He was the only surviving son of Field Marshal Earl Roberts, Commander in Chief, and Nora his wife, was born at Umballa, Punjab, January 1872, and was educated at Eton. He entered the King's Royal Rifle Corps, from the Royal Military College, in June 1891, being promoted Lieutenant June 1894. He served with the Isazai Expedition in 1892, and with the Waziristan Field Force, 1894-95, as ADC to Sir William Lockhart, commanding the force, being mentioned in despatches, and receiving the medal with clasp. He served with the Chitrai Relief Force under Sir Robert Low, in 1895, with the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, including the capture of the Malakand Pass and the engagement at Khar, receiving the medal with clasp. He also took part in the campaign in the Soudan under Lord (then Sir Herbert) Kitchener, in 1898, as extra ADC, and was present at the battle of Khartoum, was mentioned in despatches, appointed to the Fourth Class of the Order of the Medjidie, and received the British medal and Khedive's medal with clasp. He was ADC to the General Officer commanding the Forces in Ireland from December 1896, to the date of proceeding to South Africa. At Eton and among all his intimate friends he was known as "Freddy". Lieutenant Roberts was appointed ADC to Sir Ian Hamilton, commanding an infantry brigade in Ladysmith, but on arrival in South Africa was unable to join his new chief owing to the investment of that town by the Boers. He was present at the battle of Colenso, where he acted at ADC to General Clery. In this action he was mortally wounded in a gallant attempt to save the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries Royal Field Artillery, as the detachments serving them had all either been killed, wounded, or driven from the guns by infantry fire at close range. The space Lieutenant Roberts had to pass over was swept with shell and rifle fire, and in the attempt he fell from his horse mortally wounded. He was then carried by Captain Congreve and Major Babtie to a nullah where there was some slight shelter. For his gallantry Lieutenant Roberts was awarded the VC, LG, February 2nd, 1900. He was buried close to Chieveley Station, on the Tugela. A memorial to Lieutenant Roberts was erected in Wellington Barracks, St James's Park. (See Captain Cathcart)
Source: Donner | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Roberts | Frederick Hugh Sherston (The H | | Lieutenant | ROBERTS, THE HONOURABLE FREDERICK SHERSTON, Lieutenant, was born at Umballa, India, 8 January 1872. He entered the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 10 June 1891, and during the four following years was on active service on the North-West Frontier of India, including Chitral, receiving the Medals and clasps and being mentioned in Despatches. He served in the Boer War of 1899-1902, and lost his life at the Battle of Colenso in an attempt (described in the account of Captain Congreve) to save the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, RFA, which had dashed forward, far in advance of their flank supports, and opened fire on the Boer position. Without shelter of any description, and in full view of a strongly entrenched enemy, they became the object of a fearful storm of bullets and shells, which tore the horses to pieces and strewed the gunners on the ground around the guns. At last there were hardly enough men left to serve the guns, and it seemed impossible to bring relief from the donga five hundred yards to the rear. Soon the batteries had no one to serve them, and they were abandoned. But Colonel Long had said as they removed him from the gun by which he had fallen, 'Abandon be damned! We don't abandon guns'. Others were of the same opinion, and Lieutenant Roberts was one of those who answered General Buller's appeal for volunteers, and was mortally wounded in trying to save a gun, which was presented to Lord Roberts by the War Office authorities. On it, years afterwards, the great soldier's coffin was carried at his funeral. The following is an extract from a letter written by an officer at this time to a friend: 'I was galloper to General Clery, who rode all day with Sir Redvers Buller. About ten o'clock two batteries, which had advanced too close, ran short of ammunition. Their limbers were about 800 yards behind. Horses and men were sheltering in a deep narrow nullah. General Buller told them to take the limbers up to the battery, but directly they emerged a storm of bullets and shells fell all around ... Generals Clery and Buller stood out in it, and said, 'Some of you go and help'. Schofield (ADC), Roberts (Lord Roberts's son) and myself, with the help of a corporal and six gunners, went to the limbers, and got two of them horsed. I have never seen, even at field firing, the bullets fly thicker. All one could see was little tufts of dust all over the ground, a whistling noise — 'phux', where they hit, and an increasing rattle of musketry, somewhere in front. My first bullet went through my left sleeve, and just made the joint of my elbow bleed, next a clod of earth caught me smack on the right arm; then my horse got one, then my right leg one, my horse another, and that settled us, for he plunged, and I fell about a hundred yards short of the guns we were going to'. The fury of that leaden storm can be imagined from the fact that one gunner was found with sixty-four wounds in his body. In the meantime Captain Reed, of the 7th Battery, had arrived with three spare teams of horses, and he made another desperate effort to save the remaining guns, but five of his thirteen men were hit and one killed, and thirteen out of his twenty-one horses killed before he could get half-way to the guns. For his gallantry on this occasion he was afterwards awarded the Victoria Cross, as were Schofield, Congreve and Roberts. The Honourable Frederick Roberts's Victoria Cross was gazetted 2 January 1900: 'The Honourable Frederick Sherston Roberts (since deceased), Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps. At Colenso, on the 15th December 1899, the detachments serving the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, Royal Field Artillery, had all been either killed, wounded, or driven from their guns by infantry fire at close range, and the guns were deserted. About 5OO yards behind the lines was a donga, in which some of the few horses and drivers left alive were sheltered. The intervening space was swept with shell and rifle fire. Captain Congreve, Rifle Brigade, who was in the donga, assisted to hook a team into a limber, went out, and assisted to limber up a gun. Being wounded, he took shelter; but seeing Lieutenant Roberts fall badly wounded, he went out again and brought him in. With him went the gallant Major Babtie, of the RAMC, who had ridden across the donga amid a hail of bullets, and had done what he could for the wounded men. Captain Congreve was shot through the leg, through the toe of his boot, grazed on the elbow and the shoulder, and his horse shot in three places. Lieutenant Roberts assisted Captain Congreve. He was wounded in three places'. There is a memorial to him in Winchester Cathedral and in the chapel at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. VC, IGS 1854 (1) Clasp Waziristan 1894-95, IGS 1895 (1) Relief of Chitral, Queen's Sudan, QSA (2) RofL, Nat, with raised dates, 1897 Jubilee Medal, Turkey Order of the Medjidie (4th class), Khedive's Sudan Medal.
Source: VC recipients (VC and DSO book) | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Roberts | Frederick John | 13621 | Private | Base Co
Source: QSA Medal Rolls | Imperial Yeomanry |
| Roberts | Frederick John | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (Queen's) Royal West Surrey Regiment |
| Roberts | Frederick John | 2366 | Private | Source: OZ-Boer database | Victoria, 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Ho |
| Roberts | Frederick Morris | 13371 | Trooper | Source: QSA Medal Rolls | 68th Company, 19th Btn, IY |
| Roberts | Frederick Sherston | | Lieutenant | He was was born at Umballa, India, 8 January 1872. He entered the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 10 June 1891, and during the four following years was on active service on the North-West Frontier of India, including Chitral, receiving the Medals and clasps and being mentioned in Despatches. He served in the Boer War of 1899-1902, and lost his life at the Battle of Colenso in an attempt (described in the account of Captain Congreve) to save the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, RFA, which had dashed forward, far in advance of their flank supports, and opened fire on the Boer position. Without shelter of any description, and in full view of a strongly entrenched enemy, they became the object of a fearful storm of bullets and shells, which tore the horses to pieces and strewed the gunners on the ground around the guns. At last there were hardly enough men left to serve the guns, and it seemed impossible to bring relief from the donga five hundred yards to the rear. Soon the batteries had no one to serve them, and they were abandoned. But Colonel Long had said as they removed him from the gun by which he had fallen, 'Abandon be damned! We don't abandon guns'. Others were of the same opinion, and Lieutenant Roberts was one of those who answered General Buller's appeal for volunteers, and was mortally wounded in trying to save a gun, which was presented to Lord Roberts by the War Office authorities. On it, years afterwards, the great soldier's coffin was carried at his funeral. The following is an extract from a letter written by an officer at this time to a friend: 'I was galloper to General Clery, who rode all day with Sir Redvers Buller. About ten o'clock two batteries, which had advanced too close, ran short of ammunition. Their limbers were about 800 yards behind. Horses and men were sheltering in a deep narrow nullah. General Buller told them to take the limbers up to the battery, but directly they emerged a storm of bullets and shells fell all around ... Generals Clery and Buller stood out in it, and said, 'Some of you go and help'. Schofield (ADC), Roberts (Lord Roberts's son) and myself, with the help of a corporal and six gunners, went to the limbers, and got two of them horsed. I have never seen, even at field firing, the bullets fly thicker. All one could see was little tufts of dust all over the ground, a whistling noise — 'phux', where they hit, and an increasing rattle of musketry, somewhere in front. My first bullet went through my left sleeve, and just made the joint of my elbow bleed, next a clod of earth caught me smack on the right arm; then my horse got one, then my right leg one, my horse another, and that settled us, for he plunged, and I fell about a hundred yards short of the guns we were going to'. The fury of that leaden storm can be imagined from the fact that one gunner was found with sixty-four wounds in his body. In the meantime Captain Reed, of the 7th Battery, had arrived with three spare teams of horses, and he made another desperate effort to save the remaining guns, but five of his thirteen men were hit and one killed, and thirteen out of his twenty-one horses killed before he could get half-way to the guns. For his gallantry on this occasion he was afterwards awarded the Victoria Cross, as were Schofield, Congreve and Roberts. The Honourable Frederick Roberts's Victoria Cross was gazetted 2 January 1900: 'The Honourable Frederick Sherston Roberts (since deceased), Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps. At Colenso, on the 15th December 1899, the detachments serving the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, Royal Field Artillery, had all been either killed, wounded, or driven from their guns by infantry fire at close range, and the guns were deserted. About 5OO yards behind the lines was a donga, in which some of the few horses and drivers left alive were sheltered. The intervening space was swept with shell and rifle fire. Captain Congreve, Rifle Brigade, who was in the donga, assisted to hook a team into a limber, went out, and assisted to limber up a gun. Being wounded, he took shelter; but seeing Lieutenant Roberts fall badly wounded, he went out again and brought him in. With him went the gallant Major Babtie, of the RAMC, who had ridden across the donga amid a hail of bullets, and had done what he could for the wounded men. Captain Congreve was shot through the leg, through the toe of his boot, grazed on the elbow and the shoulder, and his horse shot in three places. Lieutenant Roberts assisted Captain Congreve. He was wounded in three places'. There is a memorial to him in Winchester Cathedral and in the chapel at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
VC, IGS 1854 (1) Clasp Waziristan 1894-95, IGS 1895 (1) Relief of Chitral, Queen's Sudan, QSA (2) RofL, Nat, with raised dates, 1897 Jubilee Medal, Turkey Order of the Medjidie (4th class), Khedive's Sudan Medal.
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Roberts | Frederick Sleigh | | | Entered 1851; Field-Marshal, 25th May 1895. Staff service: DAQMG, Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; DAQMG in charge of the Viceroy's Camp, 1859-60; DAQMG, Army Headquarters, India, 1860-65 AQMG, Bengal, 1866-67; AQMG 2nd Division, Abyssinian Expedition 1867-68; AQMG Army Headquarters, India, 1869-71; AQMG Looshai Expedition India, 1871-72; DQMG, Bengal, 1872-75; QMG, Bengal, 1875-78; Major General Afghan Campaign, 1878-79; Lieutenant General (local) Afghan Campaign, 1879-80; Lieutenant General Madras, 1881-85; Commander in Chief E Indies, 1885-93; General Commanding the Forces, Ireland, 1895-99; Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief the Forces, South Africa, 1899. War service: Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 (Despatches, 15th December 1857; 16th January, 29th January, 22nd February, 25th May, 31st May, and 8th June, 1858; received the thanks of the Governor-General of India; medal with 3 clasps; Brevet of Major; 1 DG), NW Frontier of India Expedition 1863 (medal with clasp); Abyssinian Expedition 1868 (Despatches; 3Oth June, 3rd July, 10th July 1868; medal; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel); Looshai Expedition 1871-72 (Despatches); Afghan War, 1878-79-80 (Despatches, 4th February, 2lstFebruary, 2ist March, 13th May, and 7th November, 1879; 16th January, 4th May, and 3rd December, 1880; received thanks of both Houses of Parliament, 4th August 1879 and 5th May 1881, and created a Baronet; thanked by Government of India and Governor-General in Council; medal with 4 clasps; bronze star; KCB, GCB); Burmese Expedition 1886 (thanked by Government of India; Despatches; clasp); Boer War, 1899-1900; Field-Marshal Commanding-in-chief the Forces in South Africa. This wonderful officer, "the idol of the army and of the nation, and the greatest commander of modern times" was born in 1832. He was the son of General Sir Abraham Roberts, GCB, and the daughter of Major Bunbury of Kilfeacle, County Tipperary. He married in 1859 the daughter of Captain Bews, 73rd Foot. He was created a Baron in 1892, in connection with his famous services in Afghanistan. Owing to the popularity of his famous work, "Forty-One Years in India", the facts of his marvellous career are well known, but the book being the output of the most modest of men, it fails to do justice to the personal qualities which have made this great leader so deservedly celebrated and beloved. A few lines from Mr Maclaren Cobban's 'Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts' express so ably the view of the multitude that it is a temptation to quote them. "His successes as a general have not been merely warlike—could not be merely warlike; for he has an understanding and an imagination which compel him to look 'before and after' — to note how the necessity for war has arisen, and to consider how war may promote a more secure and perfect peace. He has exhibited the mind of a statesman and an administrator, as well as of a soldier; and in the highest sense he has ever been an 'Empire-builder'; for he has not only made strong the borders of her Majesty's dominions in India and South Africa, but he has also consistently maintained and strengthened the ancient and inalienable British reputation for justice and truth, kindness and mercy—the intangible bonds, light as air but tougher than steel, which bind our widespread Empire together ... And so we come to the fascination of his personality. The Commander-in-Chief is a great soldier, but he is a greater man. It is in his character as a man rather than as a soldier that he has won the unrestrained affections even of the army. Since the 'little corporal', no great commander has held so entirely the confidence and devotion of all sorts and conditions of soldiers; but, while Napoleon imposed himself upon his embattled hosts as a kind of demigod, he who is most widely known as 'little Bobs' has impressed his soldiers as a man of men, as the best, the most sympathetic, the cleverest and dearest of comrades. His regard for the soldier is so well known, that such a saying would be incredible of him as that which is recorded of the Duke of Wellington, who described the men who won his battles as 'the greatest scoundrels in Europe'. It is, indeed, one of the rarities of history to find a successful leader of armies distinguished by such sweetness and such gentleness of temper, such kindness and such tact of conduct and of speech. These qualities are commonly regarded as marking the ideal character of a domestic person, of a man of peace, and in bringing them into complete accord with the triumphant practice of war he who has been so widely known as Lord Roberts shows himself our 'own ideal knight'". Second Biography. Born in India, Sep 30, 1832; is son of Sir Abraham Roberts, GCB, was educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and Addiscombe, and received his first commission as Second Lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery at the age of nineteen. He saw his first active service in the Indian Mutiny in 1857-8, taking part in the siege and capture of Delhi, where he was wounded, and in the actions, of Bolundshuhur, Allyghur, Agra, Kunoj, and Bundhera, and being present during the operations connected with the relief of Lucknow; the operations at Cawnpore; the defeat of the Gwalior contingents; the action of Khodagungc; the reoccupation of Futtehghur; the storming of Mecangunge; the action of Koorsee, and the operations which culminated in the capture of Lucknow. It was at Khodagunge that Lieutenant Roberts (as he then was) won his VC While following up the retreating enemy he saw a couple of Sepoys escaping with a standard. Galloping after them Roberts overtook them, when the men turned and faced him. Lieutenant Roberts seized the standard, cutting down the man from whom he took it. While this struggle was going on the other Sepoy levelled his musket point blank at him and pulled the trigger. Fortunately it missed fire, and the standard and the future Field Marshal were saved. The same day Lord Roberts rode up to the rescue of a Sowar, who was being attacked by a rebel armed with a bayonet. Small of stature though he was, Lord Roberts killed the Sepoy with one blow of his sword and brought the Sowar into safety. For his services Lord Roberts was several times mentioned in despatches; received the thanks of the Governor-General of India; medal with three clasps, and the brevet rank of Major. A few years later Lord Roberts was again actively employed in India in the North-West Frontier Expedition of 1863, being present at the storming of Laloo; the capture of Umbeyla, and the destruction of Mulkah (medal with clasp). He then served through the Abyssinian Expedition in 1868 (medal and brevet of Lieutenant Colonel), and the Looshai Expedition of 1871-2, playing his part in the capture of Kholel villages and the attack on the Northlang Range, and commanding the troops engaged at the burning of Taikoom (despatches). The Afghan War of 1878-80 next brought Lord Roberts into prominence, on which occasion he commanded the Kuram Valley Field Force at the capture of Pelwar Kotal. He carried out the reconnaissance to the summit of Shutar Garden Pass; defeated the attack by Mangals in the Sapari Pass; occupied the Khost district, and conducted the reconnaissance up the Kuram River. He then had command of the Kabul Field Force at the occupation of Kabul, his engagements in eluding the battle of Charasiah, and eventually commanded the whole force in the historic march from Kabul to Kandahar, after a series of brilliant victories inflicting a crushing defeat on Ayoob Khan. These splendid services were frequently referred to in despatches. He was thanked by the Government of India and the Governor-General in Council, and on his return to England at the age of forty-eight, he was loaded with honours; received the thanks of Parliament, and was created a Baronet, KCB, and GCB, adding another medal with four clasps and the bronze star to his other decorations. In 1883 he was appointed Commander in Chief in India, and in the following year after the capture of Mandalay, Lord Roberts commanded the Army in the Burmese Expedition, for which he was again thanked by the Govt, of India (dispatches and clasp). The Boer War had already been in progress a couple | Staff |
| Roberts | Frederick Thomas | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | 53rd Battery, RFA |
| Roberts | Frederick Thomas | 7775 | Driver | QSA (3) DoL OFS Belf; KSA (2)
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | 53rd Battery, RFA |
| Roberts | Frederick William | | | Prisoner number: 16227
Captured: Parijs 01 Dec 1900
Sent to: Unknown
Age: 25
Address: Parijs
Source: Anglo Boer War Museum 2016 | Boer Forces |
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