They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
W. Cobb, child of Charles Tom Cobb and Mary Jane Cobb was born in 1889. Lived at 7 Richmond Road, Parkstone, in Poole. Fought in WW1 (dogtag# 8114) as a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment. Died on Apr 28 1916 at the age of 27 in Iraq. Buried at Amara War Cemetery, VI.D.9 in Amara in Iraq. A memorial for W. Cobb can be found at St Johns Heatherlands Church, Parkstone, 1914-1918 War Memorial in United Kingdom.