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Lieutenant James Cassels COBB,  5th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action,  23rd August 1918, age 33.

Born at Pontypridd, Glamorganshire.

Son of Arthur Stanley and Margaret Ritchie Cobb, of The Parsonage, Bitterne, Ringwood, Hampshire. 

Commemorated at  Dernacourt Communal Cemetery Extension, VIII. G. 5., Somme, France.

London Gazette 8th May 1917.

War Office, 8th May, 1917. TERRITORIAL FORCE. INFANTRY.

2nd Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant), J C Cobb, to be Lieutenant, with precedence as from 1st June 1916 and to remain seconded.  - 9th May 1917.

London Gazette 25th September 1917.

Royal West Kent Regiment - Lieutenant J. C. Cobb to be acting  Captain whilst commanding a Company - 1st September 1917.