Ernest Edward Roberts

Because the 2nd Coldstream Guards and the 2nd Grenadier Guards operated as the twin
pillars of the 1st Guards Brigade, Guardsman Wrigglesworth’s battalion shared an identical operational timeline during this campaign:They bore the brunt of the heavy fighting to hold open the Escaut Canal corridors just days after his death.The survivors went on to form the core of the final western rearguard that held the muddy canal banks of Dunkirk until escaping from the Mole on June 2.

Because the 2nd Coldstream Guards and the 2nd Grenadier Guards operated as the twin His date of death falls exactly one week after the final evacuations at Dunkirk officially ended (Operation Dynamo concluded on June 4, 1940). Because the 2nd Battalion had successfully evacuated back to England on June 2, a date of June 10 typically indicates that Guardsman Roberts was either severely wounded during the final rearguard defense of the Dunkirk perimeter and subsequently succumbed to his injuries, or he was captured and died as a Prisoner of War (POW) shortly after the pocket collapsed.

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