With thanks to Nick Lock of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum for finding this artist for us
Richard John Lunt Roberts was born in Secunderabad, Madras, India, on 28th August 1894. His father, Richard Roberts, was Welsh and he worked as a storekeeper on the Indian Railway. His mother, Gertrude Annie Lunt Roberts, was born in Australia to British parents.
In 1901 the family, including a younger brother and sister, lodged in a farmer's house in Aber, Caernarvonshire, Wales; by 1911 they had moved into a home of their own in Llandudno.
Lunt Roberts joined the London Sketch Club, of which he later became President, in 1913, between then and 1964 was a cartoonist and illustrator.
He joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the First World War, initially as a Private. He was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant into the 6th (Carnarvonshire and Anglesey) Battalion on 24th June 1915 and served in Gallipoli.
After the War Lunt worked as an illustrator. He married Hilda Plant in Lewisham in 1924. and died in Kingston Upon Thames in 1981.
Gallipoli sketch and "An age of Invention" by Lunt Roberts
Sources: Find my Past, Free BMD and https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Lunt_Roberts_(1894-1981)
