HOBDAY Alfred

  • First Name(s):
    Alfred 
  • Surname:
    HOBDAY
  • Service Number:
    61370
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Corps:
    Machine Gun Corps
  • Regiment:
    Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Unit:
    39th Company
  • Former Units:
    Formerly 19276, Worcestershire Regiment.
  • Date of Death:
    25th January 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, XVI. C. 1.
  • Place of Birth:
    Hartlebury, Worcestershire, resident Crossway Green, enlisted Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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HOBDAY Alfred Is Named On These Memorials

Hartlebury St James the Apostle Churchyard WW1 Memorial

Further Information About HOBDAY Alfred

The birth of Alfred Hobday is registered in the December Quarter 1893 under the Droitwich Registration District.  Alfred was one of six children of Sampson Henry and Alice Mary (nee Lamb) Hobday:
Walter, birth registered September Quarter 1886, death registered March Quarter 1887
Albert, birth registered December Quarter 1887
Kate, born 16th November 1890, died in 1971
Sidney birth registered September Quarter 1892, died in 1953
Edgar, birth registered March Quarter 1896, death registered December 1896

1911 Census
Mitre Oak Farm near Stourport
Sampson Henry Hobday, head, age 54, farmer, born Ombersley, Worcestershire
Alice Mary Hobday, wife, age 54, married 25 years, 6 children, 4 still living, 2 died, born Doverdale, Worcestershire
Kate Hobday, 20, daughter, age 20, farmers daughter, born Ombersley, Worcestershire
Sidney Hobday, son, age 18, farmers son working on farm, born Ombersley, Worcestershire
Alfred Hobday, son, age 17, farmers son working on farm, born Ombersley, Worcestershire

A photograph of Private Alf Hobday of Hartlebury can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 10th March 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

Alfred Hobday
Photograph Courtesy and Copyright of George Baylis

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Credits: Additional information researched and transcribed by Mark Chambers. Berrow's Worcester Journal Supplement researched by Sandra Taylor.