Frank Jobbins
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 235310
Parents: Edward and Hannah Jobbins
Home address: London Street, Kingswood, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Bootmaker
Date of birth: 1892
Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol
Date of death: 25/11/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium and Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial
Age: 25
Further information:
Frank was born in Kingswood, the son of a brick maker and the second youngest child of nine with four brothers and four sisters. He along with several of his siblings all worked in the boot industry.
Frank enlisted first in the Essex Regiment before transferring to the Yorkshires. His battalion mobilised to France in August 1914 and took part in various actions on the Western Front, in 1917 this included The Pursuit of the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. On the day that Frank was killed, there were no significant engagements, so it is likely that he died during the on-going trench warfare that accounted for 300 soldier deaths per day. Frank's body was never identified and the memorial where he is commemorated is one of four memorials to the missing in an area of Flanders known as the Ypres Salient.
Frank's older brother, Frederick Charles, also died serving his country two and a half years earlier.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/