World War 1, Australia, ROBERTS, 11 Battalion, 1914
1902Captain Stephen Richard Harricks ROBERTS, 8th Commonwealth Horse, later Officer Commanding 11th Battalion
From the age of 17 years the late Col Roberts took a keen interest in military matters. He was commissioned in January, 1901, and in that year he raised, and later commanded a company of the Goldfields Infantry Regiment. He had also been a member of the Victorian Rangers, the Perth Mounted Infantry and the Perth Regiment. He saw active service in the South African war as commanding officer of the 8th Australian Commonwealth Horse.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Great War he left Perth as second in command of the 11th Battalion AIF, and saw service with the battalion at Gallipoli and later, as its commanding officer, in France and Belgium. He was twice mentioned in dispatches. And was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
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- World War 1, Australia Western Australia Perth, ROBERTS, 11 Battalion, 1914 (0.02km away)
- World War 1, Europe, Western Front, ROBERTS, 1918 (0.02km away)
- DRAWING: '98 BARKER ROAD SUBIACO', CHRIS CLARKSON (0.02km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: HOUSE AT 98 BARKER ROAD, SUBIACO (0.02km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: HOUSE AT 10 BEDFORD AVENUE, SUBIACO (0.07km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, WILLIAMS, 10 Light Horse (0.11km away)
- World War 1, Australia Western Australia, BICKFORD, 1916 (0.13km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH (COPY): STREETSCAPE, CORNER OF COGHLAN ROAD AND HAY STREET, M.W. KAVANAGH GROCERY STORE, CIRCA 1908 (0.21km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 404 FOSS, 10 Light Horse (0.23km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 3237 HARRISON, 10 Light Horse (0.25km away)
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ROBERTS, Stephen Richard Harricks 8th Australian Commonwealth Horse
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