This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. Worby (Arthur Worby) (Worby, Arthur) Service no G/61093 Private, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Died on 16 November 1918, aged 20 CWGC: "Son of John and Mary Ann Worby, of 76 Crimsworth Road, Wandsworth, London." Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Tooting, London SW17 and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census Arthur Worby, 12 in 1911, lived at 76 Crimsworth Road, South Lambeth. His father widower John Worby, 53, was an Army pensioner from Cambridge. There were five siblings on the census return - their places of birth reflecting their father's Army career. Emma Worby, 24, was born in Chatham, Kent; Jessie Worby, 20, a laundress, was born in Port Royal, Jamaica; John Worby, 15, an errand boy, was born in Dublin; Frank William Worby, 16, an errand boy, was born in Middlesbrough; Arthur Worby, 12, was born in South Lambeth. Arthur's nephew, Arthur Worby Gridner, 1, lived with the family.  "Arthur Worby came from a military family, his father John Worby was career soldier, leaving the Royal Engineers as a Quarter Master Serjeant (the old spelling) after 21 years service. Arthur was one of 11 children, most born in barracks around the world, one was my grandmother Jessie, born on a troop ship in Kingston, Jamaica. "Arthur Worby's sister Jessie married Albert Allen (a common Stockwell name) who was an Old Contemptible who survived the war. In the 1st Middlesex Regiment, he was Mentioned in Despatches 3 times for staying behind with the wounded. His son Ted repeated that at Arnhem in 1944, being awarded the Dutch Bronze Cross for gallantry, for staying with the wounded when the Germans overran the town." Arthur Worby was brother-in-law to Thomas James Woodley, who married his sister Ethel Maude Worby. Visit http://freespace.virgin.net/howard.anderson/ |
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