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Military service
Service number:
65453
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
July 3, 1889
Sussex, England
Enlistment:
November 2, 1914
Montreal, Québec
Death:
June 16, 1916
Zillebeke, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Benjamin Thomas and Elizabeth Hobday, of Bunces Farm, Ashburnham, Battle, Sussex, England. He stated he was single and employed as a butler. His brother, Lt. Steven George Hobday, 3rd Battalion also lost his life on October 8, 1916 and is commemorated on the Vimy Monument.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Walter James Hobday
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
Digital gallery of
Private Walter James Hobday
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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