James John Tubby

Private - Service No.60994 - Machine Gun Corps

James John Tubby was born on 5th November 1893 in Fritton, Norfolk (between Long Stratton and Hempnall). He was the son of John Tubby and his wife Eliza (Hurn). He was the eldest of five children, Ellen (1895), Hilda (1899), Horace (1901) and Robert (1903), all born in Fritton where John worked as an agricultural labourer. John and Eliza married on 12th May 1893, in Hempnall, Norfolk, settled in Fritton where they had their five children and, by 1911, were living at Park Farm Cottages, Wymondham.

James enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps around 1916 (no Star awarded) and was transferred to the reserves on 22nd March 1919. His army records do not survive but we know he was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

In 1919 James married Evelyn May Fox from Hoveton. The couple settled in Swardeston where they had a daughter, Rosamund Edith Tubby, on 15th September 1922. Evelyn died when Rosamund was barely three years old and James died in 1979. Rosamund married Peter John Hardy on 3rd April 1953 and they had a daughter, Judith, in the North Walsham area in 1954. Rosamund and Peter died in 1996 and 2003 respectively. This is where the trail goes cold - for now!

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