Harold "Aggs" Roberts served in No.2 Cdo 5 troop

[Photo courtesy of Chesterfield FC].

Lance Corporal Harold Roberts, 5 Troop, was one of the commando contingent on board HMS Campbeltown during the raid at St Nazaire in March 1942. He was wounded and taken prisoner of war. He spent some of that time at Milag Nord Camp, near Bremen, and later at Stalag V111b (Stalag 344) at Lamsdorf, Poland.

Harold Roberts was born in Liverpool and was educated at Major Lester School. He played football for Liverpool schoolboys. Leaving school at the age of 14 he later went on to have a season at Goodison Park as a sixteen year-old and joined Chesterfield FC from the Birkenhead-based Harroby FC only weeks before the outbreak of war. He had to wait until hostilities came to an end for his League debut. Post war he played for Chesterfield FC, Birmingham FC and Shrewsbury Town FC.