Captain Paul Louis ROBERTS
Indian Signals Corps

Date of birth: 23rd June 1914
Date of death: 18th April 1942

Killed in action aged 27
Commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial Face 28
He was born at Folkestone on the 23rd of June 1914 the son of Charles John Roberts, solicitor, and Anne Marie Eugenie (nee Chabert) of 8 Cheriton Gardens, Folkestone.

He was educated at Hillcrest School, Haywards Heath, and at the King's School Canterbury from January 1928 to December 1931, where he was in School House and The Grange. He was a School Monitor, a member of the Debating Society, and represented the school in the Rugby XV, the Rowing IV, at PT and as Captain of Boxing. . He was a member of the Officer Training Corps where he achieved Certificate A.

After King’s he trained as a solicitor and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4/5th Battalion East Kent Regiment (TA) on the 23rd of June 1932. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 23rd of June 1935 and to Captain on the 22nd of August 1938.

He later moved to India where he worked for Saundersons and Morgans of 26 Dalhousie Street Calcutta and lived at 8 Minto Park Calcutta. On the 10th of January 1939 he enlisted as Recruit 1327 in the Calcutta Light Horse and on the 20th of July 1940 he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army.

He served with the Indian Signals Corps in Burma.

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