The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-20
MITTIE BOBS" ANSWERS
LAST ROLL CALL
Lord Roberts, Famous English Cen
eral, Dies of Pneumonia While On
HIS Way to See the Indian
Troeps in Northern France


London, Nov. 1.-THE official press
bureau announced tonight, at the re-
quest of Lord Kitchener, that Lord
Roberts died tonight in France. Pneu-
monia was the cause of his death.
1t vas only yesterday that another
official announcement was made tat
the famous general was going into
the war zone to see the Indian troops"
The news of the death of Field Mar
snal Roberts was received in a tele-
gram from Field Marshal Sir John
French, reading:
81 deeply regret to inform you that
Lord Roberts died at o'clock this
Saturday evening"
IA later dispatch said that Lord Rob-
erts contracted chill Thursday after
his arrival in France and succumbcd
after short illness, his great age, 50,
initiating against his recovery
Lord Roberts was born Frederick
Sleigh Roberts in Cawnpore, India,
Sept. 80, 1892. He was the son of
Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, G. E. B.,
and Isabella Bunbury Roberts. He
was very young when sent to Eng
land to be educated. There ne was
graduated from Elton, Sandhurst and
Addiscombe.
He memained in England until 1852,
when he returned to India to begin
the foundations for the fighting career
which caused Emperor William in Sep
tember, 1912, to refer to him as 'the
ablest soldier of tee times
Like all those who build nightly,
he began at the very foundations and
with the native field battery at Dunn
Dunn. His most important duties tnen
comprised a supervision OF the firing
of salute guns.
1T was before Delhi in 1857 that his
career of glory began, perilous though
it was, and often all but cut short by
bullets, shells and sabres Of the Sc
poys. Wherever the fig ting was hot
test young Roberts was pretty sure
to be in great evidence Wounds he
recovered from and fevers he defed.
From Delhi Roberts was passed
with a movable column to his own
birthplace-bloodsta Cawnpore-
distinguishing himse! repeatedly on
the march.
With the column he went to the
relief of Lucknow and many oppor-
tunities did ae receive in which to
s. ow his indomitab!e courage For
repeated bravery he gained, at the
age of %, the coveted Victoria cross.
On May II, 1859, &c married Nora
Henrietta Bews, the daughter of a
captain. She gave him two dapgn-
tiers and one son. The latter was
killed in the Boer war.
Soon after the Afghan war he was
created K. C. B., and it was about
this time that he became known as
Little Bobs," f e name that Britis
soldiers would have followed to the
lair of The devil aimself.
Here, following, are some OF the
places where "Bobs" ACHE, ed fame
Commended the Kabul field o-ce II
1879; commanded the lAfghanistan
campaign in south. 1880; made com
mander in chief in India. 1885; COM
mander of the forces in Ireland IN
1895; commander in chief Of the Sogth
African war, 1S99-1900, relieved KIM
berley, February, 1900, took Cronje
and the western Boer army prisoners
in the same year; was made COM
mander in chief in 1901.
The orders and decorations he re-
ceived are countless; the nonors be-
slowed upon foim have been everything
that nation or a monarch could
grant.
Two years ago he retired into pri-
vate life, but when the European con-
flict began his war spirit was reawak-
ened and he hastened to the side of
his huge friend, Lord Kitcr ener.
On October %, 1912, Lord Roberts
at Manchester made speech which
brought upon MIN the tremendous crit
icism of all England.
Germany will make war; he e
clared. "Now just as in 1866 and in
1870 war will take place the instant
the German forces by land and sea
are by their superiority at every point
as certain of victory as anything in
human calculation can be made GER
tain
This speech created a furore in the
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