HEBBES, Arthur Ernest

Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton UKCredit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lieutenant
4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
Attached to: Nigerian Regiment West African Frontier Force

Arthur was born 1876 in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire to Henry & Elizabeth HEBBES who were living at Aspley Heath, Woburn Sands in Bedfordshire around the time of Arthur’s death. Arthur was the Chief Conservative agent for the Island, but there is no record of him living in Newport.

Arthur, aged 41, was Lost at Sea aboard the SS Apapa, a defensively armed cargo & passenger ship, on the 28th of November 1917 when she was torpedoed off the Anglesey coast by U96 with the loss of 77 lives. She was bound for Liverpool from Lagos. Arthur was one of those lost, his body was never recovered & he is commemorated by the Commission on the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton.

Arthur is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.