SYDNEY WILLIAM HOBIN
Born: 15th January 1894, 97, at Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Baptised: 3rd June 1894, at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich – family home at 97, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Died: 19th October 1914; age 20; died at No. 16 Field Ambulance from wounds received at Bois Grenois. Served 6 years & 62 days. Served 6 years & 62 days.
Evening Star – Saturday, 31st October 1914 – IPSWICH MAN KILLED AT THE FRONT – The many friends of Mr. Thomas Hobin, of 136, Cavendish Street, Ipswich, who was a member of the Hippodrome Orchestra, but who is now serving as a Sergeant-Instructor at the Depot, Bury-St. Edmunds will regret to learn that he has just been notified of the death of his son, Sidney William Hobin, from wounds received at Bois Grenois, France. Thomas Hobin’s son was serving in the York and Lancaster Regiment, from which Mr. Hobin himself retired on a pension, and in which his father and grandfather served. Mr. Sidney Hobin died on the field of action on the 19th October.
Residence: West Hartlepool, Durham.
Occupation: a Telegraph Messenger;
Enlistment Details: With a permission letter from his father, Thomas Hobin. Location: Sunderland, Tyne & Wear; date: 19th August 1908; age: 14 years & 7 months; religion: Roman Catholic. Height: 5ft 2ins, fresh complexion, hazel eyes & brown hair. Mole on his right cheek.
Date of Entry Therein: 9th September 1914.
Rank: Private/Bandsman; Service Number: 9268
Regiment: York & Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star + Clasp.
Grave Reference:
B.10.
Bois-Grenier Communal Cemetery,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Thomas Henry & Ada E. Hobin, of 140, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1901 Bradford Moor Barracks, Bradford, Yorkshire.
Sydney was 7 years old and living with his parents & sisters.
Thomas Henry Hobin, 35, a Soldier – Lance Corporal in the Northumberland Fusiliers – a Musican – Slide Trombone, born Malta.
Ada Eliza Hobin (nee Gowen), 28, born London.
Ada Daisy Hobin, 8, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Kathleen Hobin, 5, born Ipswich.
1911 Dettingen Barracks, Blackdown, Frimley, Surrey.
Sydney was 17 years old, a Soldier ranked Private in the 2nd Battalion of the York & Lancaster Regiment.
Sidney played the Euphonium; he was a good musician with good musical knowledge.
He was educated at St. Joseph’s Boys School, Ipswich – 1st October 1906 – 20th December 1907.
Mr Thomas Hobin applied for his late son’s Clasp, which was then sent on the 9th September 1920 to 140, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Ada E. Hobin – mother.
Will in favour of mother.
Sydney is also remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.
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