Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Richard Hubbard, a plasterworks labourer, born 1859 in Willoughby, Leicestershire and his wife Annie Hubbard (nee Baxter, married on the 27th November 1879 in St. Peter’s Church, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire), born 1860 in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Henry, a scholar, was born in the 1st quarter of 1884 in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, his siblings were, Mary Elizabeth, born 1888 in Ruddington, and baptised on the 22nd July 1888 in All Saint’s Church, Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire and Stanley Price, born in the 3rd quarter of 1890 in Gotham, Nottinghamshire, in April 1891 the family home was at Nottingham Road, Gotham. Henry’s father died aged 40, in the 2nd quarter of 1899 in the Basford, Nottinghamshire district. Henry’s widowed mother married William Frisby in the 1st quarter of 1901 in the Basford, Nottinghamshire district. In April 1901 Henry was absent from the family home at Wallis Street, Gotham, residing there was his step father William Frisby, an agricultural labourer, born 1852 in Wysall, Nottinghamshire, his mother and siblings, Mary, Stanley and Oliver, born 1893 in Gotham, Henry was employed as a farm labourer and was residing as a lodger at The Moors, Smiths Barns, Gotham. In April 1911 Henry was employed as a farm cowman and was residing in the family home at Farnham Street, Quorn, Leicestershire together with his wife Ada Hubbard (nee Lewis, married in the 4th quarter of 1905 in the Bethnal Green, Middlesex district), born 1885 in Bethnal Green, Middlesex and their son Cyril Stanley, born 24th February 1910 in Quorn. They had another son, Leonard William, born in the 3rd quarter of 1912 in Bethnal Green.
The Brigade of Guards service records all exist, but were deposited in 2018 with the Ministry of Defence in Glasgow, the exception being the Scots Guards, whose service records are located in Edinburgh. Access to these records is available at the current cost of £30.00 per inquiry (2018). This makes it impractical for researchers who, like myself have in excess of over 400 members of the Brigade of Guards to research, as a consequence all that is known of Henry from military documents that are available in the public domain is that he enlisted into the Grenadier Guards sometime in 1914, and was posted to the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, and with this unit he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 4th January 1915. He died from wounds received in action on the 12th April 1916 in the No.10 Casualty Clearing Station that was at the time located in Remi Sidings, Belgium. His widow Ada was nominated as his sole legatee and would have therefore received his personal effects, War Gratuity, a Ministry of Defence pension for herself and two children and also the 1914-15 STAR, British War Medal and Victory Medal that had been awarded to her late husband for his War Service.