HOBBS, William John

William was born 1897 in Newport to John & Eliza HOBBS, who were living at 7 Green Street, Barton, Newport, around the time of William’s death. In 1901 the family lived at 13 John Street in Newport but by 1911 had moved to Green Street.

William, aged 21, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 23rd of February 1918. His body was never recovered or identified. William was commemorated by the Commission on Panel 39 of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium together with nearly 40,000 of his First World War comrades who have no known grave.

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