9735 Pte John Harold Noble, 1st Bn, Lincolnshire Regt

9735 Private John Harold Noble of the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 28th January 1916.

John Noble was born in the village of Girton near Newark in Nottinghamshire. He was living in Normanton when he enlisted at Lincoln in June or July 1914. He arrived overseas on the 19th January 1915 and had therefore served on the Western Front for just over a year before he was killed.

John's birth was registered at Newark in the June quarter of 1896. He appears on the 1901 census as the four-year-old son of John and Emma Noble, and the sibling of George Noble (aged six), Albert Noble (aged three) and Horis Noble (aged one). John Noble senior was working as a domestic gardener and the family was living in Girton. Private Noble is buried in the Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery in Armentieres, France. He would have been eighteen years old when he died.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, BMD, 1901 census)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War