245975 Lawrence Hobson British Army Bomb Disposal Coy. Royal Engineers My father, Lawrence Hobson was conscripted in WW2 at the age of 19 in the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal and survived the war. He died in 2002 at the age of 82 in Bradford. His father, also called Lawrence Hobson enlisted in 1915 in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. 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.
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