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CARADOC ROBERTS
CARADOC ROBERTS OF WELLAND MAKES THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
Killed in Action Oct. 24-Leaves Wife and Four Little Children Alone in Canada
3 June 1886-24 October 1916
[Welland Telegraph, 7 November 1916]
Word was received Saturday by Mrs. Caradoc Roberts, 74 Garner Ave., that her husband, Sniper Caradoc Roberts, was killed in action on October 24, 1916. Sniper Roberts leaves a wife and four young children, the youngest, which he had never seen. Mrs. Roberts and her children are alone in Canada.
Mr. Roberts was born in North Wales, where he leaves a mother and father, also one brother and sister. He came to Welland twelve years ago and had lived here up to the time he enlisted. During the time he was in Welland, he was in the employ of M. Vanderburg as stone mason and brick layer.
He enlisted in Welland with the 76th Batt., on July 26, 1915, and went overseas with the same battalion in April 1916, but was transferred to the 21st Canadians when he went to the front in July 14, 1916.
Mr. Roberts belonged to the Sons of England in Welland, the Bricklayers Union and was a member of the Methodist church. He was also president of the Young People’s League of the Methodist church.
Pte. Roberts has one brother and three nephews and Mrs. Roberts has two brothers at the front. A third brother of Mrs. Roberts is chaplain with a Welsh regiment.
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