Selected Biographies

Tribe, Albert Victor – Born: North Kensington, London on 22.10.1897.   Parents: William Tribe (Cabman) and Ellen Lucy [née Perry].  Family Connections: Brother to William James Tribe [b1881], John Henry Tribe [b1889], Frank Joseph Tribe [b1892] and Charle Walter Tribe [b1899].  Home: Maxwell Road, Fulham, London (1901), Glebe Street, Chiswick, Middlesex (1911).  Married: Rose Florence Willcocks in 1921.  Service Record: Alfred enlisted as Pte.241689 with 5^th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, later transferring to the Suffolk’s 2^nd Battalion.  Died: Wantage, Berkshire in 1956.

Tribe, Charles Walter – Born: Fulham, London on 31.10.1899.[1]  Parents: William Tribe (Cabman) and Ellen Lucy [née Perry].  Family Connections: Brother to William James Tribe [b 1881], John Henry Tribe [b1889], Frank Joseph Tribe [b1892] and Alfred Victor Tribe [b1897]; also, brother-in-law of William Leslie Donald Mills of Long Melford [b1908].  Home: 15 Maxwell Road, Fulham, London (1901), 41 Glebe Street, Chiswick, Middlesex (1911), 2 Station Road, Long Melford [1932 to 1978].  Occupation: Motor Driver [1917], Petrol Pump Fitter [1932] to (1939).  Married: Doris Lucy Janet Mills of Long Melford in 1932.  Service Record: Charles was conscripted on 16.11.1917 as Aircraft Mechanic N^o. F41702 with the Royal Naval Air Service.  On 1.4.1918 he was transferred as N^o. 241702 to the Royal Air Force, being posted to Zanzibar in East Africa in May 1918.  In the following November he was transferred to N^o. 206 Squadron in France.  His time in the RAF notwithstanding, in 1921 he is recorded as a Fitter Gunner with the Royal Field Artillery stationed at the Shoeburyness Administrative Detachment Experimental Establishment.  By the time of the Second World War Charles Tribe is recorded as a member of the Long Melford Air Raid Precaution section, responsible for demolition, and ever the keen sportsman, in 1952 is one of the Officers and Committee Members of the Long Melford Football Club.[2]  Died: Long Melford, Suffolk on 17.3.1978.[3]

Tribe, Frank Joseph – Born: Hammersmith, Middlesex on 16.11.1892.[4]   Parents: William Tribe (Cabman) and Ellen Lucy [née Perry].  Family Connections: Brother to William James Tribe [b1881], John Henry Tribe [b1889], Alfred Victor Tribe [b1897] and Charle Walter Tribe [b1899].  Home: Maxwell Road, Fulham, London (1901), 38 Montrose Avenue, Kilburn, Middlesex (1921), 25 Coniston Gardens, Preston, Wembley, Middlesex (1939).  Occupation: Motor Cab Proprietor (1921 to 1939).  Married: Gladys Violet White in 1915.  Service Record: Frank enlisted as Pte. M2/204266 with the Mechanical Transport Section of the Army Service Corps.[5]  Died: Saffron Walden, Essex in 1968.

Tribe, John Henry – Born: Hammersmith, Middlesex in 1889.  Parents: William Tribe (Cabman) and Ellen Lucy [née Perry].  Family Connections: Brother to William James Tribe [b1881], Frank Joseph Tribe [b1892], Alfred Victor Tribe [b1897] and Charle Walter Tribe [b1899].  Home: Bergham Mews, Hammersmith, Middlesex (1891), Maxwell Road, Fulham, London (1901), Military Barracks, Delhi, India (1911).  Occupation: Soldier (1911).  Married: Elsie Lillian Reak in 1911.  Service Record: John is recorded as a Rifleman with 4^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Fort Delhi in India in 1911.

Tribe, William James – Born: Brixton, London on 22.8.1881.  Parents: William Tribe (Cabman) and Ellen Lucy [née Perry].  Family Connections: Brother to John Henry Tribe [b1889], Frank Joseph Tribe [b1892], Alfred Victor Tribe [b1897] and Charle Walter Tribe [b1899].  Home: Bergham Mews, Hammersmith, Middlesex (1891).  Service Record: William enlisted as Pte.4965 with 18^th Hussars, being posted to South Africa and seeing action in the eastern Transvaal during the Second Anglo-Boer War.  Died: Private Tribe died of enteric fever at Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa on 23.2.1902.

Related Biographies

Mills, William Leslie Donald – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 2.7.1908.[6]  Parents: William Mills (Bricklayer’s Labourer) and Lydia Francis [née Bell].  Family Connections: Nephew of Charles Albert Mills [b1876], and cousin of Harry Jack Mills [b1903] and Cyril Albert Mills [b1906]; also, brother-in-law of Charles Walter Tribe [b1899].  Home: Station Road, Long Melford (1911 to 1921), Homerest Gorse Cottage, Spratts Marsh, Great Horkesley, Essex [1995].  Occupation: Machinist [1926].  Married: Emily Isobel Bateman in 1931.  Service Record: William enlisted in November 1926 as Gnr.772315 with the Royal Artillery, receiving his discharge in November 1931.[7]  Died: Great Horkesley, Essex on 9.8.1995.[8]

Notes – [1] Date of birth from the 1939 Register for Long Melford. [2] Royal Navy Registers of Seaman’s Services [ADM 188/633] and Air Member for Personnel and predecessors: Airman’s Records [AIR 79/2176]. [3] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.  [4] 1939 Register.  [5] Medal Roll [WO 329] and Medal Index Card [WO 372].  [6] 1939 Register. [7] 1931. Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942.  [8] National Probate Calendar.