The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H C Bobby

Photograph by "Lynn Brattan" Photograph by "darealjolo" - Swanscombe Cemetery.

Private Herbert Charles BOBBY, G/7249, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, ( formerly 2239, West Kent Yeomanry), killed in action, Vimy Ridge, France and Flanders, 9th April 1917, age 24.

Son of Nathan and Jane Bobby, of 26, High St., Galley Hill, Swanscombe, Kent.

1911 Census - The Alma, High Street, Galley Hill, Swanscombe, Greenhithe, Kent - Jane Bobby, head, age 52, widow, 15 children, 13 still alive, beer house, own account, Northfleet, Kent; Elizabeth Bobby, daughter, age 28, single, assisting at home, born Swanscombe, Kent; Frederick Bobby, son, age 27, single, labourer, cement works, born Swanscombe, Kent; Nathan George Bobby, son, age 25, single, assisting at home, born Swanscombe, Kent; William Bobby, son, age 21, single, labourer, cement works, born Swanscombe, Kent; Leonard James Bobby, son, age 20, singe, labourer, cement works, born Swanscombe, Kent; Herbert Charles Bobby, son, age 18, single, labourer, cement works, born Swanscombe, Kent; Harry Bobby, son, age 17, labourer cement works, born Swanscombe, Kent; Arthur James Bobby, son, age 14, born Swanscombe, Kent; Clara Bobby, daughter, age 11, school, born Swanscombe, Kent; Florence May Bobby, grand daughter, age 8, born Swanscombe, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Resided Swanscombe, Kent.

Buried at Bois-Carre British Cemetery, Thelus, I.E.10, Pas de Calais, France. He is remembered on his parents grave in Swanscombe Cemetery.

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