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Henry Hobkinson

Service Number 31277
Military Unit 2/5th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 21 Mar 1918 (33 Years Old)
Place of Birth Llanwarne, Herefordshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies Employed as a sign writer & decorator (C. 1911)
Family History

Henry Hobkinson was the son of William Hobkinson and Jane Price who married in the Holywell registration district in Flintshire in 1879. Their two children were: William (b.1879) and Henry (b.1884). The family lived at: Elmhurst Lodge, Tuffley, Gloucestershire [C.1891]; 1 Brunel Terrace, Derby Road, Lenton [C.1901]; 14 Radford Grove Lane, Radford [C.1911]. William Hobkinson, a groom and coachman, died at Nottingham, aged 50, in 1895. Jane Hobkinson described herself as a housekeeper in the 1901 census. She died at Nottingham in 1932, aged 76.

Military History

Enlisted at Nottingham; killed in action; as his body was not recovered his name was added to the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

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