Richard Dingley HOBBS

HOBBS, Richard Dingley

Service Number: 3062
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
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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: ''
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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Biography 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.

 

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