Name
Harry Hobbs
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
34155
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
78th Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SALONIKA (LEMBET ROAD) MILITARY CEMETERY
357
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Redbourn Town Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1898 in Redbourn Herts. son of Thomas and Kate (Wheeler) Hobbs of 6 Bankside, Redbourn Herts. He was a rubber worker.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford on 27 May 1915 formerly Private 5012 Hertfordshire Regiment. Transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in May 1916 and embarked for Greece on 5 Jul 1916 arriving in Salonica on 14 Jul 1916. Died of dysentery in 28th General Hospital, Salonica.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
