BORN HULL 1899. LIVED FULHAM. ENLISTED BATTERSEA, LONDON. SERVED AS “ALBERT COBB”.
SECOND SON OF WILLIAM COBB (1865- ) AND HANNAH LAVERICK ROWSON (1872-1923). HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN GREENWICH, LONDON, SERVED WITH THE HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT UNTIL 1906 AND WAS LANDLORD OF THE “BARREL TAVERN” PUB , CLIFTON STREET, HULL. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN LINCOLN. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS CHARLES W. AND SIDNEY.
HIS FOSTER FATHER WAS GEORGE GIBBINS.
HE ENLISTED AT BATTERSEA, LONDON, JOINING THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/08/1918, AGED 19.
BURIED AT CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, HANNAH, AT 7, DE LA POLE TERRACE. GILLET STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
First name:
ALBERT COBB
Regiment:
Military Number:
22039
Rank:
Private
Date Died
27/08/1918
Place died:
Croisilles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
19
