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27762 PRIVATE HUBERT DENNISON ACOMB
9th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers.
Killed
in Action, 26th September 1916.
Aged 18 years.
No
known grave, therefore, commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France. Pier and Face, 3C and 3D.
Hubert Acomb was the third
son from the marriage of Dennison Acomb and Hannah Dobson which produced five children in all. There were four boys and a
girl, Violette. All four of the boys served in the Army during the Great War. Hubert was the first of the two Acomb sons to
die when he was Killed in Action on 26th September 1916.
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| The badge of the Lancashire Fusiliers |
Born in 1898 in Topcliffe, Hubert and his siblings would have grown up on and around farms due their father
being an agricultural labourer, indeed his brother George went to work on farms as well.
Hubert Acomb was sent to his battalion in Gallipoli in December 1915,
but fortunately for him the disastrous Gallipoli campaign was abandoned in January 1916, the peninsula was evacuated and the
battalion moved to Egypt and then on to France for the coming summer Somme offensive.
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| Pte Hubert Acomb's name on the Thiepval Memorial |
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