BORN HULL 1897. SON OF ANNIE AND ALFRED GEORGE COBB, OF 8, CAMBRIDGE TERRACE, CAMBRIDGE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A FORMER BOX MAKER FOR RECKITTS.
HE ENLISTED JUNE 1915. SERVED WITH THE 5TH BORDER REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 30/09/1916, AGED 19.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 4TH DECEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE. ALSO RECORDED ON THE RECKITTS WW1 BOYS CLUB MEMORIAL, HULL.
A SINGLE MAN. HE LEFT ELDER SISTER ALICE, AND BROTHERS WILLIAM AND GEORGE COBB (WOUNDED LEFT ARM, SERVING WITH THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY).
First name:
HARRY
Military Number:
4279
Rank:
Private
Date Died
30/09/1916
Place died:
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
19
8, CAMBRIDGE TERRACE, CAMBRIDGE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
