John Tobin, Age 28

Private, 11748, 6th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

K.S.L.I Regiment Cap Badge.

John had been born in Wellington, but with his mother Mrs E Jones (formerly Tobin) was living at 29 The Rock, Dawley at the time John joined up, His father James had passed away.

John’s date of death is a bit unclear as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has him listed as killed in action on the 9th October 1915, but Soldiers Died in the Great War has him as being killed in action on the 15th October 1915.

On the 9th of October the Battalion was holding trenches on the right flank about half a mile to the north east of Neuve Chapelle and on the left flank just north of Rouge Bancs, these trenches were knee deep in mud & water.

The 13th October was the day that the 6th KSLI carried out a feint attack by electrically discharging boxes of Phosphorus in no man’s land and holding up dummies (See Private J Skitt, who also fell in action on this day).

John Tobin is buried in the Rue-De-Bacquerot cemetery in grave III.R.24

Photo courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
Buried Rue-De-Bacquerot cemetery

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Victory Medal	British War Medal	1914-15 Star Medal