Name
Francis John McLardie Chubb
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 47
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, King's College Memorial, Cambridge
Pre War
Francis John Mclardie Chubb was born in Kensington, London in 1893, the son Edward and Eliza Chubb and one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 8 Thurley Road, Norwood, Lambeth, Surrey where his father was working as a solicitor. By the time of the 1911 Census Francis was a student at St Andrew's College, Bradfield, Reading and later attended King's College, Cambridge.
Wartime Service
Francis enlisted at the outbreak of war and served as 2nd Lieutenant with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, leaving England for the Front on 27 January 1915.
He was killed in action at Ypres on 18 April 1915. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received pay owing of £49 17s 0d.
His father Edward Geoffrey Chubb served as Captain with The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), was killed in action on 12 July 1915 and is buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
