His father was Rev. Neville Talbot, Bishop of Pretoria. During the First World War Neville Talbot and his friend Rev. P.S.B. 'Tubby' Clayton started the Toc H organisation at Poperinghe in 1915. They named a house there 'Talbot House' after Lieutenant Gilbert Talbot of the Rifle Brigade, killed at Hooge in July 1915. Neville married in 1918; his second child was a boy, whose mother died in childbirth. He named the boy Gilbert after his own brother - only to lose his son in Normandy, with the same regiment, in 1944. One family's tragic loss in two world wars.