Enlistment Address

Sydney, NSW

Service Number

1933

Unit

45th Battalion

Comment

Mendooran Memorial; Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

Fate

KIA France, 19.2.1917

Information

Private Arthur Hobbs 1933

Arthur was a 25 year old farmer of Sydney when he enlisted on February 22, 1916. He embarked on HMAT Warilda on May 22, 1916 and served on the Western Front with the 45^th Battalion. He was killed in action on February 19, 1917 at Guedecourt, near Bapaume, France. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux. He is on the Canberra Australian War Memorial Panel no. 139 and the Mendooran War Memorial.

Margo Piggott and Rees Howard commemorated Arthur at the wall at Villers-Bretonneux in 2010.

An article in the Gilgandra Weekly dated February 2, 1917 told of Harry Hobbs enlistment and that he was the fourth son of Mrs Hobbs to enlist.