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Military service
Service number:
190024
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
July 5, 1880
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Ellen Hobbs, of West Lorne, Ontario; husband of Rose Ann Hobbs, of Yarmouth Heights, St. Thomas, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Alfred Hobbs
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Photo of GEORGE ALFRED HOBBS
Family photo taken in St. Thomas before deployment, 1916 -
Photo of George Hobbs
November 18, 1916, shot and killed on the last day of the Battle of the Somme. An artillery shell struck his body and he was not buried. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of George Hobbs
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Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
Digital gallery of
Private George Alfred Hobbs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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