Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs

Brigadier-General Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs, (30 January 1878 – 10 July 1953) was a British Army officer who was Brigadier in charge of Administration, Western Command.

Early life and education Hobbs was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire, to Captain Simpson Hackett Hobbs of the 89th Foot, a wire manufacturer, and Sarah Bayley. His elder brother, Lieutenant Colonel Charles James Willoughby Hobbs, died of wounds in the First World War. He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Military career Hobbs was gazetted to the Royal Engineers in 1898. He served in the Second Boer War (1899–1902), the Somaliland campaign in 1903 and in the Gold Coast in 1904–05. From 1907–11, he was technical supervisor at the School of Musketry. He returned to the field in the First World War, serving as assistant adjutant and quartermaster general in France and Italy until February 1918. and Lieutenant Colonel William Paul Hobbs (1914–1943), killed in action in Tunisia.

Hobbs died at his home in Sutton Veny, near Warminster, Wiltshire, on 10 July 1953 aged 75.