Private G A Roberts

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Reference WMO/208541

Address:

St Michael's Church

Camden Road

Camden

London

NW1 8NL

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: Bronze plaque dedicated to Private George Alexander Roberts who lost his life during the Boer War. A cast bronze plaque , surmounted by a Royal Crown on a pediment with a flat top and a concave curve on each side . Below the pediment the sides and base of the plaque are formed by slight convex curves . On each side is a fluted column . Below the pediment is the arms of the City of London in high relief . Below this are two lines of the inscription and at the centre of the lower line the initials "CIV" within a wreath . Then a plate with impressed raised lettering and at the bottom the final part of the inscription and a cartouche with flourishes containing two dates probably connected to the period of service of the CIV . The basic plaque has been replicated to a fixed pattern , with the main part of the inscription specific to the soldier being commemorated and formed by a separate plate with raised lettering , probably brazed to the basic plaque ,
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THE CITY OF LONDON IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS /DULCE ET DECORUM/CIV/ EST PRO PATRIA MORI/IN MEMORY OF/ GEORGE ALEXANDER ROBERTS A PRIVATE IN THIS REGT & ALSO IN THE/ 17TH NORTH MIDDLESEX VOLUNTEERS SON OF GEORGE JOHN AND MARY ANN ROBERTS OF THIS PARISH/. HE DIED AT NAAUWPORT ON THE 18 APR 1900 DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN AGED 20 YEARS/THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REGIMENTAL FUND/THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ALFRED NORTON BART LORD MAYOR/1899 1900/

Private George Arthur Roberts. Roberts was probably already in the 17th North Middlesex Rifle Volunteers before the outbreak of the Second Boer War. Roberts was left behind in the hospital camp at Nauuwport, where on 16th April he wrote a letter to let his parents know he was “going on very well”. This never reached them pneumonia set in after the attack of enteric fever and two days later he died 18th April 1900. George Arthur’s younger brother Albert Charles joined the Royal Navy in 1913, was married at St Michael’s in 1915 and killed when his submarine was sunk by a mine off Orfordness, Suffolk, with no survivors in 1916.

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