Name
Alfred George Tebby
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/11/1918
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
267779
Royal Engineers
70th Bde. Signals
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TEZZE BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot 5. Row B. Grave 11.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN THOUGH FAR AWAY
UK & Other Memorials
Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Hemel Hempstead, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Alfred George Tebby was born in 1885 in Great Berkhamsted, Herts the son and eldest child of Joseph and Catherine Tebby, and one of six children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 8 Franchise Street, Chesham, Bucks where his father was working as a Carpenter & Joiner. They remained in Chesham in 1901 but had moved to 107 High Street, at which time his father was listed as a house furniture and picture frame maker and Alfred was a Learner in a Post Office. He had been appointed to the Amersham branch in December 1900 and later moved to Southall, West London to take up a position as Junior Clerk.
By the time of the 1911 Census he was living with his sister Katherine at 2 Cheapside, Hemel Hempstead where he was a Furniture Dealer, having left the Post Office to manage a branch of his father's furniture business. . His parents remained at 107 High Street, Chesham.
He married Florence Batchelor on 27 May 1912 at St Paul's Church, Hemel Hempstead and they lived at 32 Alma Road, Hemel Hempstead. There are no records of them having had any children.
Wartime Service
Albert was called up in 1916 and his father, as his employer, appealed to the local tribunal for an exemption for his son so that the business could continue to operate. This was successful and he was given four months temporary military exemption because of his occupation. This was later extended to ten months but he was eventually summoned a second time and his father's second appeal was then refused.
He enlisted in Watford and enlisted as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers, being posted to the 23rd Divisional Signals Company. He was sent overseas to Italy as part of the 70th Brigade.
He contracted influenza during the worldwide epidemic of 'Spanish Flu', which caused him to develop broncho-pneumonia. He died in hospital in Italy on 9 November 1918 and is buried in the Tezze British Cemetery, Italy.
Additional Information
His widow, .Mrs F Tebby, 32 Alma Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN THOUGH FAR AWAY". His widow received a payment of £15 8s 1d which included a war gratuity of £9 10s. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week. Probate was granted to her with effects of £126 14s 8d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk., www.hemelheroes.com.
