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№ 412

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24 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£700

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Hobbs, Gloucestershire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1
899-1902, no clasp (Capt & Adjt. J. S. Hobbs. Glouc. Rgt.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. J. S. Hobbs. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. J. S. Hobbs.) the first with edge bruise, very fine, otherwise extremely fine (4)

Joseph Scovell Hobbs was appointed Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 22 October 1881, and was promoted to Captain on 1 July 1891. He was appointed Adjutant of the 4th Battalion on 5 August 1895, and was employed in St Helena during the South African War (Medal). He served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in France from 18 July to 15 December 1915.