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HOBBS, Richard Dingley
Service Number: | 3062 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 4th Pioneer Battalion |
Born: | Cornwall, England., 1893 |
Home Town: | East Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Bricklayer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 August 1917 |
Cemetery: |
Messines Ridge British Cemetery Grave IV. C. 40. Personal Inscription: EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS FATHER MOTHER AND SISTERS, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Messines, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, East Brisbane War Memorial, Kalbar War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
30 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3062, 26th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Itonus embarkation_ship_number: A50 public_note: '' | |
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30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3062, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Itonus, Brisbane | |
20 Aug 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 3062, 4th Pioneer Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3062 awm_unit: 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-08-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 24 and the son of Richard Dingley Hobbs and Mary Ellen Hobbs, [nee Nicholls] of King St., East Brisbane, Queensland.
He is remembered on the Linkinhorne War Memorial in Cornwall.
He emigrated with his parents to Brisbane, Australia and worked a bricklayer. He was killed when a shell landed above a sap at Messines on 20th August, 1917.
Births Sep 1893 Hobbs Richard Dingley Liskeard 5c
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