SD/1051 Pte Herbert H Hobbs, 11th Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment

SD/1051 Private Herbert Henry Hobbs of the 11th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, was killed in action on the 29th June 1916; one day before the South Down battalions would suffer catastrophic casualties in a diversionary attack on the Boar's Head. Herbert was 21 years old, the son of Mrs Mary Ann Hobbs of 83 Bexhill Road, West St. Leonards, Hastings. He is buried in St Vaast Post Military Cemetery at Richebourg L'Avoue in France.

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

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Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission