In Memory of

ALBERT FREDERICK NOBES

Born: 1884 Steventon, Berkshire.

Eldest Son of Albert & Annie Nobes of

Lydalls Lane, Didcot (Formally of Steventon).

Pre-war occupation: Farm labourer

16570 Private Albert Frederick Nobes

1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment

Died: 30th June 1915 aged 30

Killed in Action – Cuinchy, France

REMEMBERED WITH HONOUR:

Vieille Chapelle New Military Cemetery

Lacoutre, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II. B. 18.

Also Didcot Town Memorial & Church.

COMMEMORATED IN PERPETUITY BY THE

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Albert Nobes attested in Abingdon to the Royal Berks Regiment in 1914, shortly after war had been declared. 16570 Private Albert Frederick Nobes, serving with 1st Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment was part of 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division. Private Nobes’s Disembarkation date was the 18th May 1915. He was sent directly to the battle trenches of France & Flanders. His war was tragically short lived as just six weeks after landing in France, he was Killed in Action on the 30th June 1915, Aged 30. while The RB war diaries for that date state that the battalion was in the trenches at Cuinchy in France. It was reported that the enemy was very quiet, with work going on as usual. The previous morning had been very quiet also, but heavy shelling had taken place during the afternoon

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Albert is buried at Vieille Chapelle New Military Cemetry, Lacoutre, France, along with 34 of his Royal Berkshire Regiment comrades.

Albert's younger brother Sidney Charles Nobes also fell in France, Died of Wounds received in action on the 26-8-1918, Aged 19, while serving as Private 34925 in the 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. 

The Nobes family can be traced, in Steventon back to at least 1811 (1841 Census). Albert and his father (also Albert) were born & living in Steventon in 1911. Albert was the eldest son, one of fifteen siblings born to Albert and Anne, sadly seven children had died before 1911. For a little over 20 years the family had moved away from their home in Vicarage Lane, Steventon to live in Milton and Little Wittenham. But by 1911 the family had come back to live in Mill Street Steventon. Dad was a Carter on Farm and the eldest boys were Farm Labourers. Unfortunately, Albert snr died in September 1911 and Annie found herself with nowhere to live. So she moved to 5, Lydalls Lane, (now called Lydalls Road) Didcot, Berks. This is the address she gave on Albert and Sidney’s Army Pension records. Because of the connection to Didcot, both son’s Albert and Sidney are remembered on the Didcot Town and All Saints Church Memorials.

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