Janus: The Papers of Brigadier Michael Rookherst Roberts

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The Papers of Brigadier Michael Rookherst Roberts

Title	The Papers of Brigadier Michael Rookherst Roberts
Reference	GBR/0014/MRBS
Creator	Roberts, Michael Rookherst, 1894-1977, Brigadier
Covering Dates	ca. 1942-ca. 1977
Repository	Churchill Archives Centre

Content and context

Roberts was born in October 1894. He was educated at West Buckland and at Sandhurst.

He served in World War One with the Lancashire Fusiliers and 113th Infantry, IA (France and S. Persia); Waziristan, 1920; 2nd Lt 1914; Bt Major, 1931; Assistant Military Secretary, 1931; Comdt 2/10th Gurkha Rifles, 1937; GSO1, Nepalese Contingent, 1940; Brig. 1940; Comd bde of 7th Indian Div., Arakan, 1943-4; and Colonel, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1957-9.

He served as Chairman Gurkha Brigade Association, 1955-67, and as Historian, Cabinet Office, 1956-68.

He published "Golden Arrow" (history of 7th Indian Division), 1952; joint author, "Official History, War Against Japan", Vol. II, 1958, Vol. III, 1962, Vol. IV, 1965, Vol. V, 1969; and completed Brian Connell's "Wavell: Supreme Commander", 1969.

He died in August 1977.

Diaries and papers relating to the Burma Campaign, 1942-5, and papers relating to the 4th Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, 1942-7

The papers were presented to Churchill Archives Centre by Major CMA Roberts (son) in September 1978.

The papers are owned by Churchill College, Cambridge.

Access and Use

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.

Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.

Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Brigadier Michael Rookherst Roberts, MRBS

Further information

A copy of this finding aid is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London, and on the Janus website, http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.

This collection (fonds) level description and catalogue was prepared by Andrew Riley of Churchill Archives Centre in November 2003 using information from the papers themselves and from Roberts' entry in "Who Was Who 1897-1996" (A&C Black).

Index Terms

Army Personnel

Myanmar

Second World War (1939-1945)

Roberts, Michael Rookherst (1894-1977) Brigadier

Churchill/MRBS contains:

1/1

"ODTAA, being extracts from the [wartime] diary of an officer who served with the 4[th Battalion of the]/ 10[th] Gurkha Rifles in Manipur and Burma" by Major Anthony Charles Bickersteth (Aberdeen University Press, 1953).
1 folder.

1953–

1/2

Wartime diary of the 4th Battalion of the 10th Gurkha Rifles (typescript).
1 folder.

August 1942-July 1945

1/3

Article by Roberts, "The background to the Chindit operations" and related correspondence; and letter to the Editor, "U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings".
1 folder.

April 1954–

1/4

Correspondence with Ronald Lewin relating to his biography of Field Marshal Lord Slim.
1 folder.

October 1972-January 1977

1/5

Copy of K.C.J. Meyrick and J.C.H. Templar's, "The history of the Fourth Battalion Tenth Gurkha Rifles- March 15th 1941- February 28th 1947" (typescript).
1 item.

ca 1947–

1/6

Copy of Roberts' lecture on strategy and administration in "Burma 1943-1945".
1 item.

ca. 1978–