Career
As a fourteen-year-old boy Roberts was present in Hartlepool during the Imperial German Navy"s bombardment. After Roberts" father was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, he joined the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. William, who worked as an aircraft fitter, claimed to have flown with T. East. Lawrence. After the war he became a local authority transport manager.
Roberts lived in Jacksdale until his death in April 2006 at the age of 105.
