The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal A B Hobbs

Lance Corporal Albert Beach HOBBS, G/4159, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after 8th October 1915.

11th July 1884?, born Poplar, E, son of Henry James & Ann Hobbs, 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent.

14th September 1884, St Anne, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, baptism of Albert Beach Hobbs, son of Henry James, (boat builder), & Anne Hobbs, 99 Stainsby? Road.

1911 Census - 111 Haig Road, Plaistow, London E - Henry James Hobbs, head, age 68, widower, married 40 years, 10 children, all still alive, shipwright, boat builder, worker, born Rotherhithe, London; Catherine Hobbs, daughter, age 40, single, born Limehouse, London; Albert Beach Hobbs, son, age 26, single, cooper, worker, born Limehouse, London.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 30 years & 4 months, height 6ft 1 inch, weight 154lbs, pale complexion, blue grey eyes. brown hair. Resided Bromley, Kent. Formerly cooper, served apprenticeship 12 years ago..

Home, 19th October 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF, 1st June 1915 to 8th October 1915.

19th October 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th November 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th March 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 1st June 1915, posted BEF & embarked; 26th July 1915, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 8th October 1915, posted missing.

23rd July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Henry James Hobbs, 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent; Mother, deceased; Brothers - Henry James Hobbs, age 43, Manor Park, E; Arthur Hobbs, age 42, 101 Landseer Avenue, Manor Park; Joseph Hobbs, age 38, Gunr? 8 Room, Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth; Sisters - Annie Hobbs, age 51, "Sperkeporde"?, St Cross, Winchester; Catherine Hobbs, age 49, 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent; Mary Hobbs, age 48, Avonmore, Dorking, Surrey; Ellen Hoad (married), age 47, 15 Mount Street, Dorking, Surrey; Susan Smith (married), age 40, 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent; Ethel Hobbs, age 30, 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France / Bromley War Memorial.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both show Service No. as G/4159 ; CWGC web site shows it G/14159.

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