Reuben Dolby
View Reuben on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
203745
Rank:
Private
Service:
Leicestershire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
08 August 1895
Date of death:
18 September 1918
Age at Death:
23
Known information
Private Reuben Dolby was one of two brothers killed within months of each other in the final stages of the First World War. Reuben was born at Tinwell on 8 August 1895. He was one of seven children of James and Annie Dolby of Pasture House in Tinwell and worked as a house painter. He joined the 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment on 21 June 1917, going out to the Western Front on 29 March 1918. During the big British advance near the end of the war he was killed instantly by a shell on 18 September 1918, leaving behind a widow, Annie. He now lies buried at Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, grave V.1.9, and is remembered on Tinwell's war memorial. His brother James Alfred Dolby had been killed just a few months earlier, in June.
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Reuben was a house painter and lived with his wife Annie (nee; Tyler) at Exton in Rutland.
By skinnylizzy on Friday 13th June '14 at 3:27pm
Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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