Identity
Person No.
27636
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Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Herbert
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Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
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Date of Death
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DIS 6,078
Died of disease
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Civilian
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Unknown
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Notes
Son of the Rev. Charles Wallace-Roberts and Margaret Mary Wallace-Roberts (nee Kerr), of Cape Colony, South Africa; husband of Mrs. M. O'Donnell-Peet (formerly Wallace-Roberts). Took up a post as an analytical chemist at the De Beers Dynamite Factory in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa. In the war he volunteered for active service in South Africa but was rejected as being medically unfit. He then travelled to England and offered his services for munitions work. He was appointed to HM Munitions Explosives Factory at Queensferry, Flintshire, where he became Chief Chemist.
Citations
LG Sup 7 January 1918 pg 404 - "Chief Chemist, H.M. Factory, Queen's ferry, Ministry of Munitions."
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