Name
Vincent Arthur Nobbs
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/03/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
53020
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
22nd Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COUIN NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Row B, Grave 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Green
Pre War
Son of Harry and Mary Ann (nee BURR) NOBBS of Watford.
His parents married 9 September 1883 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, Herts. Harry died 1944 aged 81; Mary died 1944 aged 78; both in the Watford district.
Vincent was born 24 March 1892 in Rickmansworth, and baptised 24 April 1982 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth. He was employed by J Dickinson & Co at their Croxley Mills, Herts.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Rickmansworth, with his parents and eight siblings. On the 1911 Census, he is proving elusive.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 8 February 1916 in Watford for the Duration of the War, in the Bedfordshire Regiment, no. 25914: a bleacher of Watford, 5’6½” tall.
He qualified as a Vickers machine gunner 22 June 1916, transferred to the Machine Gun Corps 10 August 1916, and embarked from Folkestone 27 August 1916 to Boulogne.
He was wounded in the chest and thigh 2 March 1917, went first to No. 22 Field Ambulance then to the Corps Operating Centre, France, where he died of his wounds.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
