Arthur ROBERTS. Private 8093, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division died 9th July 1912 aged 38 from a fractured skull. He was on leave in Malta and his body was found in a moat. Son of Edward Roberts and Emily nee Bricknell. On the 2nd June 1907 at St Peters Church, Upper Teddington he married Mary Ann Elliman. He was aged 33, Royal Marine, at Chatham Kent. Mary was aged 34 and lived a 2 Collinsons Cottage, Victoria Road, Teddington. His widow was informed of his death 11th July 1912. At rest in Plot B Grave 214, Capuccini Naval Cemetery, Malta.
Credit the follow to Malta Family History.
Arthur ROBERTS, No.8093, Chatham Division, Royal Marines Light Infantry. He was born 24th September 1874, in Teddington, Middlesex, and enlisted on 10th July 1894. His wife Mary Roberts, lived at 104 Shacklegate Road, Teddington, Middlesex. He re-engaged on 24th March 1906. After basic training with ‘D’ Company at Walmer, he was transferred to ‘E’ Company Chatham Division on 14th May 1895. He served on HMS Pembroke from 27th March 1896 to 7th July 1896, HMS Apollo from 8th July 1896 to 25th August 1896, HMS Pembroke from 26th August 1896 to 25th March 1897, HMS Swallow from 20th May 1897 to 7th December 1900, HMS Galatea from 29th January 1901 to 19th April 1902, HMS Amphitrite from 20th April 1902 to 11th August 1905, HMS Halcyon from 1st March 1906 to 17th March 1908, HMS Vindictive from 28th April 1908 to 18th October 1909, HMS Hawke from 19th October 1909 to 24th May 1910, HMS Lancaster from 31st May 1910 until his death on 9th July 1912.
Daily Malta Chronicle and Garrison Gazette - Thursday 11 July 1912
Early yesterday morning, the body of Arthur Roberts, age 35, Private in the Royal Marines, belonging to H.M.S. Lancaster, was found at the foot of the bastion, off the Dueli Road and above the New Dock, whither he was supposed to have been proceeding on return to his ship, some time during the previous night.
The examination which followed on the removal of the body to the Royal Naval Hospital, Bighi, showed that the unfortunate man's head was injured in several places, but there is no evidence to show by what means he met his death. The bastion is rather low at the place of the occurrence and might easily have been mistaken in the darkness.
He bore an exemplary character and would have been entitled to his fourth badge on the day of his death. He leaves' a widow and two children in England. The funeral will take place to-day in the Bighi Cemetery.
