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Son of the Rev. Charles Wallace-Roberts and Margaret Mary Wallace-Roberts (nee Kerr), of Cape Colony, South Africa; husband of Mrs. M. O'Donnell-Peet (formerly Wallace-Roberts). Took up a post as an analytical chemist at the De Beers Dynamite Factory in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa. In the war he volunteered for active service in South Africa but was rejected as being medically unfit. He then travelled to England and offered his services for munitions work. He was appointed to HM Munitions Explosives Factory at Queensferry, Flintshire, where he became Chief Chemist. |
