'Lieut. The Hon. F. H. S. Roberts, V.C.', late 1890s, (1901). Portrait of Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts, British soldier. Roberts (1872-1899) was the son of Field Marshal Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts. He was a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Colenso during the Second Boer War in South Africa, where he was killed in action in 1899. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]