Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1888-1912 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
½ box or 0.015 cubic metres
Scope and content
Copies of papers and photographs relating to Hobbs' career, 1888-1912, including eighteen manuscript letters home from Singapore, 1892, and from the Sudan, 1897-1900. Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, obituaries and records of service, 1888-1912, including newspaper cuttings relating to the campaign in the Sudan, 1897-1898, notably the Battle of Omdurman, Sep 1898, and manuscript letter to Hobbs from Col Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, on Hobbs' resignation from the Egyptian Army, 5 Nov 1901. Thirty photographs, [1888]-1908, notably the officers of HMS MERCURY, 1893, and soldiers of 11 Sudanese Bn, Sudan, 1902.
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1867; commissioned into the Royal Marines Light Infantry, 1886; served on HMS ASIA, 1889-1890; service in Singapore, 1892; served on HMS MERCURY, 1893; Superintendent of Gymnasia, Western District, 1893-1895; served in Chatham, Kent, 1896; Capt, 1896; Nile Expedition, Egypt and the Sudan, 1897-1898, including capture of Abu Hamed and the re-occupation of Berber, Sudan, Aug-Sep 1897; served with Egyptian Army, 1897-1901; Staff Officer, Water Transport, to Commander-in-Chief, Nile Expedition, 1898; service on HM Gunboat FATEH, Battle of Omdurman, Sep 1898; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 1900; Commanding Officer, 1 Egyptian Bn, and 11 Sudanese Bn, 1900-1902; service with the Colonial Contingent, Alexandra Palace, London, for the Coronation of HM King Edward VII, 1902; Superintendent, Gymnasia Depot, Deal, Kent, 1903-1906; Maj, 1905;served on HMS PRINCE GEORGE, 1907; Commandant, Royal Naval School of Music, Eastney, Hampshire, 1909-1911; died 1911.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1986.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Note
Compiled Sep 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Colonial conflicts
- Colonial countries
- Colonial forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military organizations
- Newspapers
- Nile Expedition (1897-1898)
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Political systems
- Publications
- Ships
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- Communications media
- Information sciences
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald, 1861-1953, Knight, General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Egyptian Army (Subject)
- HMS Mercury (Subject)
- Sudanese Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.