The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F C Hobson

Private Frederick Charles HOBSON, G/19510, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 12th October 1917.

Son of Frederick Parker & Sarah Ann Hobson,

1911 Census - 95 South Moor Road, Brimington, Chesterfield - Fredrick Parker Hobson, head, age 54, married, general labourer, hay & corn, worker, born Osbournby, Lincolnshire; Sarah Ann Hobson, wife, age 49, married 31 years, 11 children, 9 still living, 4 died, born Brimington, Derbyshire; George Edward Hobson, son, age 22, single, fitter, iron, worker, born Brimington, Derbyshire; Fredrick Charles Hobson, son, age 16, single, coal screener, coal, worker, born Brimington, Derbyshire; Harold Edwin Hobson, son, age 12, born Brimington, Derbyshire; Alan Hobson, son, age 9, born Brimington, Derbyshire; Alice Muriel Hobson, son, age 6, born Brimington, Derbyshire.

Enlisted Sheffield, Yorkshire, age 21 years & 8 months (April 19th), height 5ft 6¼ inches, weight 119lbs, has hairy mole on right side of neck. Resided 31 Goodlake Street, Brightside Hill?, Sheffield / 95 South Moor Road, Brimington Common, Chesterfield, Derbyshire / 5 Ridley Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Formerly steel dresser.

Home 10th December 1915 to 25th June 1917; BEF 26th June 1917 to 12th October 1917.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915 to Army Reserve; 29th March 1917, mobilized & posted Chesterfield, Depot, Sherwood Foresters, Service No.82831; 31st March 1917, posted 4th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters; 26th June 1917, posted BEF & 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters; 27th June 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 27th June 1917, disembarked; 21st July 1917, 14 Infantry Base Depot, transferred to 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

24th March 1917, St Thomas Parish Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Frederick Charles Hobson, age 22, bachelor, fitters labourer, 95 South Moor Road, Brimington Common, Chesterfield, father, Frederick Parker Hobson, labourer, married Marion Edwards Kewley, age 27, spinster, munition worker, 5 Ridley Street, father John Kewley, carrier.

12th May 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium.

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