Lt.Col. Emanuel Roberts , Madras Army. 49th Regmt. (1834). See: Burke's Landed Gentry, ed. 1937 - Roberts of Hollingside http://www.christchurchwaterford.org/what-ts-window.html: Roberts 1914-18 War Memorial. This brass plaque, facing west on a pillar is a very poignant reminder of the human cost of world war one, and records the death of five grandsons of one man in that conflict. The plaque gives the names of five descendants of John Roberts who were killed in the First World War; Archibald, Major in the Yorkshire Regiment, Gallipoli, 1915; Frederick, Major, 2nd Queen's, France, 1915; Gerard, Colonel, Gloucestershire Regiment, France, 1916; John, Corporal, Canadian Regiment, France, 1917; and Stephen Whateley, Captain, Royal Munster Fusiliers, France, 1918. All were grandsons of Colonel Emanuel Roberts of the Madras Army and of Newtown. A generation later, Gerard's son and namesake, a Captain in the Durham Light Infantry, was killed in France in 1940. The Roberts' are one of only three cases of a father and son both winning the Victoria Cross.
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