Veteran Story: Sid Roberts was born on Tongy Station near Mitchell, to Frank 'Nugget' Roberts (1854-1919) and Liza (Eliza). Roberts was a station hand at Tomoo Station when he volunteered in June 1917. Initially assigned to the 20th Reinforcements for the 11th Light Horse Regiment, in March 1918 he was transferred to the 30th Reinforcements for the 5th Light Horse Regiment and left Australia in the company of other Indigenous soldiers: Frank Balser, Frederick Teare and George West. In June 1918, twelve months after enlisting Sid Roberts joined his regiment encamped at Solomon's Pools south west of the city of Bethlehem, Palestine. Shortly after they were ordered to the Jordan Valley to take over the defense of a series of detached posts along the whole of the valley. Roberts remained with the regiment until the end of the war and returned home in August 1919. He was granted an exemption from the 'Aboriginals Protection Act, Qld' in 1922, at the time working at Dingwall Station; it is not recorded whether Sid Roberts married, he died in 1936 age 48.
