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During the Second World War Roberts served as a rear-gunner with Bomber Command and he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in 1945. As a civilian he worked as a dairy farmer and forester. After retirement he and his wife circumnavigated the world in their yacht, Shoestring. Roberts was living in Perth at the time of writing Brylcream Easy and No Known Grave.