Thank you to Margaret Dennis for this research.
Albert Beach Hobbs was born in 1884 in Poplar Middlesex, and lived in Bromley, Kent, the son of Henry James Hobbs, 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent.
He was the brother of Mary Hobbs of Avon More of Dorking, Surrey.
Albert joined the 6th Battalion. The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, service number GS/4159 as a Lance Corporal.
The 6th (Service) Battalion was formed at Maidstone on 14 August 1914 as part of the “first hundred thousand” to enlist. A call to arms ‘Your King and Country need you: a call to arms’ was published on 11 August 1914. It explained the new terms of service and called for the first 100,000 men to enlist. These volunteers were collectively called Kitchener’s Army or K1.
The 6th (Service) Battalion moved via Colchester, Purfleet and Hythe, to Aldershot by February 1915.
On 1st June 1915 they landed at Boulogne, and by 6th June had moved to the Meteren-Steenwerck area. On 23rd June at Ploegsteert Wood, the 6th Queens was among the battalions in the trenches. By the end of September 1915 they arrived at the Loos front. On 8th October, the Division repelled a heavy German infantry attack, and this was the day Lance Corporal Hobbs was killed in action.
He is remembered on the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. (Panel 95/97)
| Born | Poplar, Middlesex | |
| Lived | Bromley, Kent | |
| Son of | Henry James Hobbs of 37 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent | |
| Brother of | Mary of Avonmore, Dorking, Surrey | |
| Regiment | 6th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment | |
| Number | GS/4159 | |
| Date of Death | 8th October 1915 | |
| Place of Death | France | |
| Cause of Death | Killed in Action | |
| Age | 31 | |
| Memorial | Loos Memorial |
