Name
Edward Geoffrey Chubb
1869
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/07/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TANCREZ FARM CEMETERY
I. B. 23.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, The Leys School War Memorial, Cambridge, King's College Memorial, Cambridge
Pre War
Edward Geoffrey Chubb was born in 1869 in Brixton, London, the son of John and Eliza Chubb and one of six children. He also had four half siblings from his father's first marriage.
On the 1871 Census the family were living at Radcliffe House (East Side), Brixton Rise, Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey. His father's occupation was given as 'Lock and Safe Maker to the Queen, employing 200 men', and they had four servants, with a coachmen and his family living in an adjacent cottage.
He attended the Leys School, Trumpington Road, Cambridgeshire from 1879 and was listed as a pupil there on the 1881 Census.
His father had died in 1872 aged 56 and on the 1891 Census the family were living at Chevender, Chislehurst, Kent where his widowed mother was said to be 'living on her own means'. Edward was then 21 and a student at Cambridge. He went to King's College, Cambridge, and studied Classics and Law and then worked as a Solicitor for the Marconi Company.
Edward married Charlotte Eliza Bealey in 1892 in Kensington and on the 1901 Census the couple were living at 8 Thurlby Road, Norwood, Lambeth, London with their four children, Francis, Hugh, Patrick and Kathleen.
By 1911 Edward was living at Chavender, 38 Oak Cross Road, Berkhamsted. where he was employed as a solicitor with his wife Betty's (Eliza) occupation listed as photographer.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he joined the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) and served with distinction in Belgium. He was killed in action on 16 July 1915 at the age of 46, having reached the rank of Captain.
He is buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow received pay owing of £76 6s 0d and was granted probate of his estate in London on 12 October 1915 with effects of £148 5s 7d.
His father John was patentee of various improvements in Chubb's locks and safes, in a company started by his grandfather Charles Chubb in Winchester.
His son Francis John McLardie Chubb served as Second Lieutenant with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was killed in action on 18 November 1915. He is named on the Ypres (Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
