Private Hubert Pennington CATTLEY (1910)

22nd (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Born 18 September 1890 in Brighton, East Sussex
Killed in action 14 March 1917, aged 26
Buried at Gommecourt British Cemetery No.2, Hebuterne, France. Also commemorated at Eton College, on the Surrey CCC War Memorial at the Oval, and at the Reform Club, London.

Hubert Cattley was the son of Hubert Toulmin Cattley and Lilian, née Pennington, of 17 Hyde Park Terrace, London. His mother was one of the first women to study mathematics at the University of Cambridge; his maternal grandfather was the Liberal MP for Stockport.

He was born in Brighton, was at Eton before coming up to Merton, and before the war he worked as a bank clerk.

He volunteered on 25 September 1914 in St James's, and joined the Middlesex Regiment. He was sent to France on 17 November 1915, and transferred to the Manchester Regiment on 1 November 1916.

He was killed in action, in a hastily planned small-scale attack on German trenches near Bucquoy, on 14 March 1917.