Roe A R M Captain 1st Dorset Regiment
CAPTAIN A. R. M. ROE
IST BATTALION THE DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT
ARTHUR ROBERT MONTGOMERY ROE was the youngest son of Sir Charles Arthur Roe, of the Indian Civil Service, and Elizabeth Gaskell, daughter of Francis Gaskell, of Chelsea.
He entered the School in September, 1896, and passed 9th into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in November, 1899. He received his Commission in the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment in August, 1900, was promoted Lieutenant in 1902, and Captain in 1909. He was Adjutant of his Battalion 1908-11, and was at the Staff College 1912-13. In 1914 he was stationed at Belfast, and was well known in the City by reason of his great interest in the athletic life of the Battalion.
In August, 1914, he went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, and was at first attached to the 15th Brigade Staff, but owing to the loss of Officers he returned to Regimental duty.
On September 9th, during the advance to the Aisne, after the Battle of the Marne, he was in command of his Company, in the front of an attack on the German entrenched position, on the main road from Meaux to Chateau Thierry. Early in the afternoon he was wounded in the arm, but he continued fighting, and, a few hours later, he was hit in the head. In spite of the severity of his wound he managed to raise himself as he was carried from the field and to shout words of encouragement to his men. On the following day it appeared that the attack, in which Captain Roe played such a gallant and conspicuous part, had been of great value to the general plan, as it had prevented a German counter-attack on the 4th Division, and when the Brigade advanced the ground was found strewn with dead and wounded Germans, and three big German guns which had been left behind during their flight. He died of his wounds at the Base Hospital, Le Mans, France, on September 16th, 1914. Age 32. He was subsequently mentioned in Despatches.
Captain Roe married in 1911 Joan, daughter of Sir William Wiseman, and left one daughter.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1