8343 Pte Hubert E Norvill, 1st Bn, SWB

8343 Private Hubert E Norvill of the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, died of wounds on the 26th December 1914. He was 27 years old, the son of Harriett and the late Albert Norvill, and the husband of Kate Norvill, of 3 Bath Street, Newport, in Monmouthshire.

Hubert was born in St Woollos, Newport, (Mon) and enlisted at Pontypool in either late 1903 or early 1904. He was therefore probably on the Reserve when war was declared but nevertheless, was back in khaki and marching on French soil by the 13th August 1914. He almost certainly died in a hospital at Lillers and is buried in the communal cemetery there.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War