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Rank & Name
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Private Hubert Dennison Acomb
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Unit
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No. 27762, 9th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers
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How & When Died
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Killed in Action, 26 September 1916
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Age, if known
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18 years
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Next of Kin details
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Son of Dennison and Hannah Acomb, of 66 Hill Estate, South Emsall, Pontefract, Yorkshire.
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Commemoration Details
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No known grave, therefore, commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France. Pier and Face, 3C and 3D.
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Other Information / Remarks
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Hubert Acomb is further commemorated inside All Saints Church, Barwick, where a framed photograph and Description of the Thiepval
Memorial is displayed along with the names of five men from both villages who are named on the memorial. His parents moved
to Barwick after his death.
The Acomb brothers' father, Dennison was a farm labourer who was born at Stamford Bridge in Lincolnshire, as was George.
Farm labourers moved around following work and often lived in tied accommodation. By the time the next son, Arthur was born
the family had moved to Full Sutton near York, while when Hubert arrived they had moved north and east to Topcliffe, and had
evidently been there for some time as a sister had also been born at Topcliffe. Violetta was the only daughter the Acombs
had. The family must have moved to Barwick in Elmet during 1900 as the youngest child, Robert Clarence, aged 10 months at
the time of the 1901 census was also born in Topcliffe, but the family was by now living in Barwick.
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Photographs
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Remembering the Fallen of Two Villages on the Eastern Fringes of Leeds.
Site built by Nigel Marshall
Copyright 2006-7
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