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Sgt. Thomas Harry Hubble MM.
British Army 8th Battery, 174 Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:stourbridge and Normanton
(d.25th May 1918)
My Grandfather. Sgt. Thomas Hubble originated from Enville, near Stourbridge, and from there joined the army and spent some time in India. He left the army to become a Yorkshire coal miner at Normanton, where he met and married Annie Louisa, by whom he had three children.
On the outbreak of WW1 , as a reservist, he was called up and served in the Royal Field Artillery 8th Battery 174 Brigade for four years, before being killed by a single bullet in the vicinity of Arras.
He was awarded the Military Medal but the citation is lost.
He is buried in the Cabaret Rouge cemetery, Souchez - just below the Vimy Ridge, France.