Casualty Details

Name: HOBBS, ERNEST WILLIAM
Initials: E W
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry
Unit Text: 23rd Bn.
Age: 37
Date of Death: 31/08/1942
Service No: 10406
Awards: D C M
Additional information: Son of Alfred Ernest Hobbs and of Hannah Elizabeth Hobbs (nee Pitcher); husband of Edith Hobbs, of Newton, Auckland, New Zealand.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. A. 14.
Cemetery: GAZA WAR CEMETERY