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The Roll lists his address as Taverners Road, and that he was entitled to the Mons Star medal.
(CWGC records that Private William Roberts, regimental number 7453, died aged 30 on 17/9/1914 serving in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Stone 20 of La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. They record him as the husband of Milliss Cooke (formerly Roberts) of 33 Taverners Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Ramsey who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Milliss was his legatee. On the 1911 census William Roberts was recorded as being aged 25, staying as a visitor at 84 Belsize Avenue, Woodston; his occupation was recorded as a soldier in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and his place of birth was given as Woodwalton, Hunts. His marriage to "Mliss Birch" on 20/4/1912 was recorded in the registers of St Paul's Church in Peterborough; he was aged 24, of 40 Clarence Road, his occupation as labourer, and he was stated to be the son of James Roberts (deceased); "Mliss" Birch was stated to be 19 years old, the daughter of Richard Robert Birch. Her birth was registered in Peterborough District as "Millis" Birch; the baptism on 3/7/1895 of "Mliss Birch", daughter of Richard Robert and Sarah Ann Birch, was recorded in the Baptism register of St Mary's Church in Peterborough).
William Roberts birth had been registered in Huntingdon District in 1886. On the 1891 census he had been aged 5, living with his parents James and Elizabeth in Old Fen, Ramsey, which was stated to be his place of birth. On the 1901 census he was aged 15, living with his parents at Lower End, Woodwalton. His father James died in 1903. On the 1911 census William was age 25 staying in Woodston.