FREDERICK HUGH SHERSTON ROBERTS

Approximate Image Size: 7 1/2 X 10 inches Approximate Overall Size: 10 X 14 inches

SHORT BIO: LIEUT. THE HON. F. H. S. ROBERTS V.C. Rarely does a young officer take up duty with a British regiment under more favourable auspices than did Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts. To be the son and the grandson of a distinguished soldier is, in itself, considered a recommendation for the profession of arms, but of Lieutenant Roberts it can be fairly said that he was the only son of the most popular soldier of his generation-Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, V.C. After a course of training at Eton, where he won. the regard of all by his open-hearted and chivalrous nature, young Roberts went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and at the age of nineteen was gazetted on June 10th, 1891, to the King's Royal Rifles as 2nd Lieutenant. Proceeding at once to India, he joined the ist Battalion of his regiment at Rawul Pindi. Here he put in the first few months of his service. A brother officer wrote, a few weeks after his arrival, " Sir Frederick Roberts' son has just taken up duty. Officers and men are alike delighted with him, for he is full of enthusiasm and ever ready to enter with spirit into any sports. Modest and unassuming, he has made friends on all sides, and,is an undoubted acquisition, but is burning to receive his 'baptism of fire.' " He had not long to wait, for his wish was gratified in 1892, when the difficulty in Isazai rendered it necessary to put a small expedition into the field, of which the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifles formed part. Having obtained his lieutenancy June 22nd, 1894, he was chosen by the late Sir William Lockhart to act as his aide-de-camp in the Waziristan Expedition Of 1894-95, and acquitted himself so well that the General made a flattering mention of him in his despatches. He received the Frontier War Medal with clasp for this campaign. In the Chitral Expedition of 1895 he was Aide-de-camp to General Sir Robert Low, when he was again mentioned in despatches, and obtained a second war medal.

VERY GOOD CONDITION. Printed on heavier textured-glossy type paper. The colors are very bright and clean It does have text on reverse side (doesn't show through the heavier textured type paper) which is a BIOGRAPHY relating to the portrait. A great Genealogy collectible item.

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