'Young Citizen Old Soldier&quote;. From boyhood in Antrim to Hell on the Somme

For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts. The closely filled pages recorded just over two years in his life in uniform as he played his part in what was then known as the Great War.

During the Home Rule crisis of 1914, one of several in Ireland''s history, James McRoberts, like many other men, joined the Young Citiz...