Name
Ernest Nobbs
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/09/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Ordinary Seaman
SS/9292(Ch)
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Pembroke
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
G. 2. 728.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials,
Not on the Rickmansworth memorials
Pre War
Son of Albert and Elizabeth (nee CHILD) NOBBS of Watford.
His parents married 30 July 1887 at Holy Cross, Sarratt, Herts. Elizabeth died 1938 in Watford aged 69, and was buried 24 December in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Albert died 1940 in Watford aged 79, and was buried 28 November, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Ernest was born 23 July 1900 in Rickmansworth, Herts, and baptised 21 October 1900 at Holy Cross, Sarratt. He attended Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 26 October 1908 to 1 March 1909, and was buried 11 September.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 months he lived in Sarratt, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 10, he lived in Watford, with his parents and six siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 24 July 1918 for a period of 5 + 7 years: a general labourer, 5’3″ tall, and joined H.M.S. Pembroke 24 July 1918.
He died at the Sailors’ Home, Chatham, Kent, from pneumonia.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
