Four: Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Hobbs, Gloucestershire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Capt & Adjt. J. S. Hobbs. Glouc. Rgt.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. J. S. Hobbs. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. J. S. Hobbs.) the first with edge bruise, very fine, otherwise extremely fine (4)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Militaria to the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th and 61st Foot).

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Joseph Scovell Hobbs was appointed Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 22 October 1881, and was promoted to Captain on 1 July 1891. He was appointed Adjutant of the 4th Battalion on 5 August 1895, and was employed in St Helena during the South African War (Medal). He served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in France from 18 July to 15 December 1915.