In Memory Of

MOLL, TOBIAS MORTIMER

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 1890-07-20
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 9th Bn.
Regiment:
 Leicestershire Regiment
Date of Death:
 1916-07-15
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, hit by shrapnel
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. D. 5.
Cemetery:
 MERICOURT-L'ABBE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Tobias and Henrietta Moll, of Welbeloond Farm, Potsdam, Cape Province. b. July 20, 1890. A South African rugby union player from Cape Town. According to a fellow soldier of the time: "We were now out of that nightmare wood in what was once a village - the village of Bazentin-le-Petit, and the day was 13 July. We had achieved our objective, and fondly believed that the Germans were on their way back to Berlin. We received orders to consolidate. The village was a shambles and nothing remotely resembling a house was to be seen. Here I came across an old friend from Hamilton's, Toby Moll, who told me that Cyril Bam had been killed. No trace of him was to be found. Soon after this, Toby was hit by shrapnel when he was quite near me and I saw at once that there was no hope. It was hard to see Toby go - everything else was impersonal, almost unreal, but with Toby one was up against it." Moll was awarded a single caps on 27 August 1910, one against the British Isles team on their 1910 tour of South Africa. He played for the Transvaal team.