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One of my medals

Your Pictures..... And some of the "Hobbs" listed.....

Hobbs, A., 3790, Private, 1st Dragoons, Cape Colony, OFS, Transvaal, Tugela Heights,Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek, KSA.
Hobbs, F., 4160, Boy, 6th Dragoon Guards, Cape Colony,1901,1902.
Hobbs, G., 3537, Private, 14th Hussars, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith. Home 17/05/00

Hobbs, G., 4110, Private, 16th Lancers, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittenbergen, Relief of Kimberley .

Hobbs, G., 4410, Private, 6th Dragoons, Cape Colony, OFS, Transvaal, 1901, 1902.
Hobbs, H., 3588, Private, 17th Lancers, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, Cape Colony, OFS.
Hobbs, H., 5064, Private, 18th Hussars, OFS, Transvaal, KSA.
Hobbs, H., 4370, Sergeant, 5th Lancers, Belfast, Cape Colony, OFS, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, KSA.

QSA Mike,
Many thanks again, just a query, as I am not up to date with the clasps, the Relief of Kimberley is listed last on your list and on the papers that came with it ( which also said that he was entitled to the KSA with 01/02 clasps) but on the medal it self it is the first one, I take it that it was the first campaign that he fought in?.
Regards
Michael

Michael. Take a look here...... Mike

www.angloboerwar.com/medals-and-awards/b...s-south-africa-medal

Order in which clasps were worn
The clasps on a QSA are always read from the suspender upwards. The list below shows the clasps in the order of wearing, with the clasps at the bottom of the list appearing closest to the suspender.

South Africa 1902
South Africa 1901
Belfast
Wittebergen
Diamond Hill
Laing's Nek
Johannesburg
Transvaal
Defence of Mafeking
Wepener
Driefontein
Relief of Ladysmith
Orange Free State
Paardeberg
Relief of Kimberley
Tugela Heights
Modder River
Belmont
Defence of Ladysmith
Elandslaagte
Talana
Defence of Kimberley
Relief of Mafeking
Rhodesia
Natal
Cape Colony

There are service papers for him too.

Hobbs, George
Born 1876
Stapleton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

WO97 confirms George Hobbs, a nineteen year old plumber from Bristol joined the Corps of Lancers at the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury upon the 23rd of October 1895, having been posted to the Scarlet Lancers, he was perhaps not an absolutely cracking cavalryman, he was none the less a fairly typical one, with considerable Foreign Service, he went on to serve in South Africa from the 22nd of January 1900 until the 22nd of February 1902, he gave his next of kin as his father Alfred Hobbs of Myrtle Cottage, Stapleton , Bristol.

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