Photograph of Moses Roberts in uniform

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Moses Roberts was born in Glan Llyn, Cefn Brith, Uwchaled in 1893. His brother Bob joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1914, and was soon sent to fight in France. Moses joined the army in November, 1915, and another brother, Aron, joined a week later. Moses first served with the RWF, then with the Labour Corps and the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps). This photograph shows him in uniform wearing a cap with a badge which seems to be the Army Service Corps insignia. Moses wrote his reminiscences about his life in 1979 when aged 86, and they were published in the Transactions of the Denbighshire Historical Society in 2007. In this he writes of enjoying his period of training in Kinmel Bay and then: "I moved from Kinmel to Wrexham, where I received the kindest attention. Then, to my dismay, I moved from Wrexham to Oswestry and I do not have a good word to say about the place. We wished to be deployed somewhere and so it happened and we went to France in March 1916. Well, that was hell - every war is hell. We were there until the Armistice occurred on November 11th. I had to wait until March 1918 [sic- presumably 1919]. I was thankful to return home, along with Bob and Aron, from the whole business. ... There was much talk of the angels of Mons and some rogues were making big money by selling cars with images of the angels on them. I was angered by this, as I never saw a single angel while in France but I saw plenty of demons, indeed, demons in human form, the pompous officers some of whom were not fit to tie my shoelaces."

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