245676 Lawrence Hobson Royal Navy Royal Marine Light Infantry from:Laisterdyke, Bradford Lawrence Hobson was my Grandfather and he enlisted in 1915. He had not been married long and had a baby daughter, May. He was taken prisoner in April 1917 and was discharged at the end of the war in 1918. After the war, he had three more children but sadly died in 1924 aged 31. His wife, Eliza Ellen was aged 29 and left to bring up her four children alone. One of those children was my father, also called Lawrence. He was conscripted in WW2 at the age of 19 in the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal and survived the war.
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