TOBIN, Herbert James

Herbert was born 1888 in Newport to Walter Joseph & Adalaide Emily (nee WICKINGTON) TOBIN. In 1891 the family resided at Abrahams Court, Church Path, in 1901 at 33 South Street & 1911 at 20 West Street, all in Newport.

Herbert was reported as Killed in Action on the 2nd of August 1917 & originally buried on the battlefield near to where he fell. He was exhumed, identified from a letter found on his body, & reburied on the 15th of October 1919 within the New Irish Farm Cemetery in Section IX Row F Grave 12. Herbert rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR BROTHER FROM HIS LOVING SISTER ALICE”, alongside 1,455 of his First World War comrades. Herbert was 29.

Although born & bred in Newport, Herbert does not appear on the Newport Borough War Memorial, but is remembered on the County Memorial.