John Roberts (footballer, born 1891)
John T Roberts MM was a Scottish amateur football centre half who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.Prior to the First World War, Roberts worked as a drapery warehouseman. After Britain's entry into the war in August 1914, Roberts enlisted in the Highland Light Infantry and was serving as a sergeant when he won the Military Medal for "gallant conduct" on the first day on the Somme in July 1916. During the course of the action he was shot in the shoulder and recovered back in Britain.
