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Sapper HORACE EDWARD HOBBS

Service Number: 63352
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

154th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

VIII. B. 12.

France

New headstone of Private A Foster, buried with full military honours at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery in the Netherlands on Wednesday 23 March 2005. Ref. REC 8/2/142N

Photographer: NEA

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William John and Alice Mary Ann Hobbs, of 40, Emerson Rd., Ilford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1624
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