Hugh Pierce Roberts (14 October 1882 – 5 December 1969) was a Welsh professional footballer, best remembered for his four years as an outside right in the

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with Leeds City.

Personal life

Roberts' had a wife and four children and his brothers Albert and Dick were also footballers. Roberts served as a

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in the Middlesex Regiment's Football Battalion during the First World War, but he was unable to return to football after sustaining a fractured ankle in an accident in France in September 1918.

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Welsh men's footballers English Football League players Men's association football outside forwards British Army personnel of World War I Middlesex Regiment soldiers Southport F.C. players Leeds City F.C. players Southern Football League players Scunthorpe United F.C. players Luton Town F.C. players 1882 births Sportspeople from Rhyl Footballers from Denbighshire 1969 deaths {{Wales-footy-forward-stub