Name
Rodney John Napier Stubbing
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/05/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3488
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot IV, Row A, Grave 4.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Australasian Imperial Expeditionary Forces Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial Canberra
Pre War
Son of William Henry STUBBING of Watford and the late Ann(ie) (nee BYARS) STUBBING.
His parents married 1887 in the Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, district. Annie died 1914 in Watford aged 56, and was buried 25 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; William died 20 August 1924 in Watford aged 69, and was buried 23 August, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Rodney was born 16 May 1894 in Dartford, Kent, and attended first Sotheron Road Infants’ School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 14 January 1901 to 11 October 1907. He went to Australia aboard the Aberdeen Line Norseman from London to Sydney 31 July 1912 3rd Class: a labourer aged 18.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a grocer’s shop assistant aged 16, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He attested in Liverpool N.S.W. 9 July 1915: a labourer aged 21, Methodist, unmarried, 5’7¾” tall, of Balladoren, N.S.W.; next-of-kin his father of Watford.
He embarked with his unit from Sydney aboard H.M.A.T. A32 Themistocles 5 October 1915, and died of gun shot wounds to the legs at No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals.
Additional Information
There is a brief article about and a Death announcement for Rodney in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 26 May 1917.
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
