Name
Charles Tobutt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
S/12077
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAROEUIL BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot IV, Row J, Grave 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Post Office Memorial (*1), Not on the Croxley Green memorials (*1), Northwood War Memorial, Middlesex
Pre War
Son of Edward TOBUTT of Northwood, and Charlotte (nee MASSEY) TOBUTT; husband of Daisy Maria (nee MORTLOCK) TOBUTT of Tottenham, London.
His parents married 19 May 1883 at St Martin’s, Ruislip, Middx. Charlotte died 1935 aged 70; Edward died 1941 aged 77; both in the Uxbridge district.
Charles was born 22 March 1893 in Pinner, Middx. and baptised 30 July 1893 at St John the Baptist, Pinner. He was appointed Postman (L) Watford April 1915, and married 25 November 1917 at Emmanual Church, Northwood. Daisy remarried 1924 in the Newmarket, Cambs, district to James E PALMER.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Pinner, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, an auxiliary postman aged 18, he lived in Northwood, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Northwood, Middx; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 He appears under the Croxley Green section of the Watford Post Office memorial. Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
