LAUGHTON Hubert Henry Schomberg Lieut

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Surname: LAUGHTON;

Forename(s): Hubert Henry Schomberg;

Initials: HHS;

Rank: Lieut;

Previous Battalion: 2 of;

Previous Regiment: Worcs Regt;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 167 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 63 Coy;

How killed: D;

Where: UK;

When killed: 25-Nov-1918;

Other Data: born 24/8/1897 at 5 Pepys Rd, Kingston-upon-Thames, son of John Knox Laughton (Naval Instructor)RN Retd & Maria Josepha Laughton (nee Alberti) of 11 Stanton Rd, Wimbledon, SW19. Educ Kings College School & London University. Served 2 Worcs Regt to 30/10/1917 and 1/11/17 - 30/11/18 with MGC. Wounded 28/10/18 - invalided UK and died at Manor War Hospital Epsom, 25/11/18 of influenze and pneumonia. Estate £ 134.00.00d

joined 167 Coy from Base 28/11/1916
left to join 2 Worcs Regt 2/7/1917
with 63 Coy 6/1/1918

University of London
Narrative LAUGHTON, Lt. Hubert Henry Schomberg, Machine Gun Corps. King's College. France, August 1916 to October 1918 (wounded and invalided).

LAUGHTON, Lieutenant, HUBERT HENRY SCHOMBERG, 2nd Battalion. Worcestershire Regt. Died of pneumonia 25 November 1918. Age 21. Son of Sir John Knox Laughton, RN., and Lady Laughton. Served in France from November, 1916 to October, 1918, when he was wounded at Le Cateau. K. 98. (Epsom Cemetery - United Kingdom)

Born 24/8/97 at 5 Pepys Rd, Kingston-on-Thames the son of John Knox Laughton (retired Royal Navy Instructor) [he pre-deceased his son] and Maria Josepha Laughton (formerly de Alberti). Educated at Kings College School and at London University. At the time of the war his mother Lady Laughton was living at 11 Stanton Rd, Wimbledon. His commission application is dated 12/8/15. Commissioned 9/9/15. To France 19/11/16. Joined 167 Company MGC in the Field 28/11/16. Proceeded as an instructor to Div Depot Battalion 21/5/17. Promoted Lieutenant 1/4/17. Returned from Divisional Depot 2/6/17. Ordered to join 2 Worcs Regt and joined 3/7/17. Admitted 32 Stationary Hospital Wimereux 9/3/18 (neurasthenia). Wounded 28/10/18 (gsw l thigh - slight) and admitted to 20 General Hospital Camiers. Died of influenza and pneumonia 25/11/18 at the Manor War Hospital Epsom. Listed as 2 Worcs Regt attd MGC. He left estate valued at £134. His brother Captain Francis Eugene Laughton MC served with 3 Cameron Highlanders. (Officers Papers - National Archive)

Youngest son of the late Sir John Knox Laughton RN and Lady Laughton of Wimbledon. Died at the Manor War Hospital Epsom of septic pneumonia. Aged 21. He was wounded 28/10/18 after two years service in France. (Cuttings Book in Regimental Archive P26)

Died of septic pneumonia. Son of the late Sir JK Laughton. Photo (The Graphic)

See entry for 2nd Lt Croydon-Fowler

(ATT MGC)

LAUGHTON Sir John Knox knight of 9 Pepys-road Wimbledon Surrey died 14 September 1915 Probate London 30 October to Maria Josefa Laughton widow. Effects £471 14s. 8d. (National Probate Calendar - Index of Wills and Administrations)

Sir John Knox Laughton (23 April 1830 - 14 September 1915) was a British naval historian and arguably the first to delineate the importance of the subject of Naval history as an independent field of study. Beginning his working life as a mathematically trained civilian instructor for the Royal Navy, he later became Professor of Modern History at King's College London and a co-founder of the Navy Records Society. A prolific writer of lives, he penned the biographies of more than 900 naval personalities for the Dictionary of National Biography. (See full Wikipedia entry)

LAUGHTON Hubert Henry Schomberg of 11 Stanton-road Wimbledon Surrey died 20 November 1918 at Epsom Surrey Administration London 13 February to dame Maria Josefa Laughton widow. Effects £134. (National Probate Calendar - Index of Wills and Administrations)

LAUGHTON Maria Josefa of 57 Carlton HilL, St. Johns Wood, Middlesex widow died 13 January 1946 at St. Josephs Home, Church-street Edmonton Middlesex Probate Llandudno 15 March to dame Elvira Sibyl Laughton Mathews widow. Effects £351 15s. 11d. (National Probate Calendar - Index of Wills and Administrations)

Dame Elvira Sibyl Marie Mathews, DBE (née Laughton; 25 September 1888 – 25 September 1959), known as Vera Laughton Mathews, was a British military officer and administrator. She was the second Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), serving from its reformation in 1939 until 1946. (See full Wikipedia entry)

1911 Census
Hubert Laughton
Age: 13
Occupation: Schoolboy
Address: 9 Pepys Road, Wimbledon - the dwelling had 9 rooms
Where Born: Wimbledon, Surrey
Father's Name: John Laughton 80, professor of history at Kings College, London, b. Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool
Mother's Name: Maria Laughton 48, b. Spain
Elvira Laughton 22, typewriting student, b. Hammersmith, London
Grace Laughton 21, art student, b. Hammersmith, London
His parents had been married for 24 years - 5 of their 5 children had survived.

1901 Census
Hubert H S Laughton
Age: 3
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898
Address: 9 Pepys Road, Wimbledon
Father: John K Laughton 70, retired Royal Navy Instructor and professor of modern history at Kings College London, b. Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool
Mother: Maria J Laughton 38, b. Spain and naturalised by marriage
Birth Place: Wimbledon, Surrey
Elvira Sybil M Laughton 12, b. Hammersmith, London
Grace Ellen. Effingham Laughton 21, b. Hammersmith, London
Jeffrey Kerr Laughton 8, b. Chipping Barnet, Middlesex;

Other Notes: HUBERT HENRY SCHOMBERG LAUGHTON Lieutenant 2nd Bn., Worcestershire Regiment who died on Monday 25 November 1918 . Age 21 .
Additional Information: Son of Sir John Knox Laughton, R.N., and Lady Laughton. Served in France from Nov., 1916, to Oct., 1918, when he was wounded at Le Cateau. Cemetery: EPSOM CEMETERYSurrey, United Kingdom Grave or Reference Panel Number: K. 98.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/41800;

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