Raymond Robert George HOBDEN

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HOBDEN, Raymond Robert George

Service Number:	119
Enlisted:	22 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	1st Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1888
Home Town:	Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Cooks Hill School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Accountant Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Monash Gully, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 18 May 1915, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Quinn's Post Cemetery, ANZAC Row C, Grave 10 Rev. E.N.Merrington officiated Headstone inscription reads: He died as he lived nobly, Quinn's Post Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moree & District Fallen Soldiers Honour Roll, Moree ANZAC Centenary Memorial

World War 1 Service

22 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 119, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 119, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 119, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney
18 May 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 119, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 119 awm_unit: 1 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-05-18

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of George Henry and Florence Albenia Maud Hobden of 'Gowrie', Dawson Street, Waratah, NSW

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

PRIVATE R. R. G. HOBDEN.
Private R. R. G. Hobden who was killed at the Dardanelles on May 30 left Newcastle with the 1st Australian Light Horse. He was among those who volunteered from Moree shortly after the war broke out. Upon arriving in Egypt he was appointed despatch-writer to Major Reid. Private Hobden was the only son of Mr. G. H. Hobden, of Waratah. He was well known in Newcastle, especially in cricket circles, being for several years secretary of the Waratah Cricket Club.

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.

105 years ago today, on the 18th May 1915, Private Raymond Robert George Hobden, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment, Clerk (Waratah Municipal Council, N.S.W., Messrs. Reed & Company, Moree, N.S.W.), of "Gowrie",16 Dawson Street, Waratah, New South Wales, was killed in action at Monash Valley, Gallipoli, age 26.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1635178
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137200000

Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 26th December 1888 to George Henry (died 1934 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139876621) and Florence Albenia M (died 1943 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140444171) Hobden, Raymond enlisted August 1914 at Sydney, N.S.W.

Originally buried Pope's Hill Cemetery, Shrapnel Gully, Plot VII Grave 3, Mr Hobden is now resting at Quinn's Post Cemetery, Gallipoli. Row C Grave 10.

Raymond’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Book of Gold, Waratah Park Memorial Gates, Waratah-St Philip's Anglican Church Roll of Honour and the Waratah & Mayfield Roll of Honour. Name not inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140983696
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138825598
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140030327

There is no memorial inscription on the family headstone to tell us that their only son fell during The Great War, and it is not possible to place a memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Raymond’s supreme sacrifice. ANGLICAN 2-127. 50.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=459310#2

I would like to see all family headstones inscribed with a memorial inscription to express the loss of a son or sons during The Great War.
Lest We Forget.

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