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English cricketer and member of the British Armed Forces

Captain Francis Bernard Roberts (20 May 1882 – 8 February 1916) was an English cricketer and member of the British Armed Forces who was killed in World War I. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler whose brother Arthur also played first-class cricket, Roberts was born in Nasik in India and played for Cambridge University and Gloucestershire, minor county cricket for Oxfordshire and for his alma mater Magdalen College School, Oxford (1894–1898) and Rossall School (1898–1901). Roberts' first-class career spanned 1903 to 1914 on the outbreak of World War I, across eighty matches where he scored 2,566 runs at a batting average of 20.36 with five centuries and a best of 157. With the ball he took 88 wickets.

A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, he served during the First World War as a captain in the 9th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He was killed in February 1916 in Belgium aged thirty-three.

References

  1. ^ Bebbington, David. (2014). Mister Brownrigg's Boys Archived 26 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine: Magdalen College School and The Great War. London: Pen and Sword Books.
  2. "Player Profile: Francis Roberts". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  3. "Teams Played For". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  4. "Player Profile: Francis Roberts". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  5. "About Jesus College > Old Library & Archives > Exhibitions > First World War". Cambridge University. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  6. "Francis Bernard Roberts". Commonwealth Graves Commission. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  7. "Cricketers who died in World War 1 — Part 5 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.

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