Son of Thomas and Mary Jobling; husband of Winifred Isabel Jobling, of 36 Bexley St., Sunderland. Served in France from 1915. Mentioned in Despatches.

Linda Gowans has submitted the following:-

Ernest was born in 1893 at Blaydon Burn to Thomas Jobling (born Swalwell) and his wife Mary (born Whickham), the youngest of their four children. In 1901 the family is at Holmwood House, Winlaton: Thomas is an Engineer’s Clerk, and two of Ernest’s sisters are teachers (one of music). The 1911 census shows them at 69 Theresa Street, Blaydon. Thomas is now an Accountant for the Gas Company, and Ernest is a Shipping Clerk.

He married Winifred Isobel Davey in Sunderland in early 1918. She was a teacher, shown in the 1911 census with her parents and three older siblings at 36 Bexley Street, Sunderland. Winifred’s brother was Ernest Davey, who was killed close to the time of her marriage to Ernest Jobling – to be followed by the death of her husband later in the same year.

Ernest Jobling had been serving in France from 1915, but we have no record of his enlistment or any other detail, only that he became a Captain in the Army Cyclist Corps. He was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches in The London Gazette, in a War Office, 30th December 1918, list of Army Cyclist Corps personnel headed: ‘The following is a continuation of Sir D. Haig’s Despatch of the 8th November, 1918, submitting names deserving of special mention.’

The cyclists’ principal duties were reconnaissance, courier work and security patrols, for example Romeries, where Captain Jobling is buried, is about 16 kilometres south of Valenciennes, and was captured on October 23rd 1918: he lost his life the following day during the Advance to Victory that ended with the Armistice.

Ernest Jobling is remembered at Blaydon on B111.01 and B111.14, at Sunderland on S140.009, S140.010 and S140.048 part 9 and at Winlaton on W85.01

The CWGC entry for Captain Jobling