British Boer War Telegram telling a Lient Colonel Hobbs then...

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British Boer War Telegram telling a Lient Colonel Hobbs then that is Brother Major Hobbs had been killed in the battle of Honing Spirit Friday 22nd June 1900, Major Hobbs was under his Commanding Officer Lient Colonel Bullock of the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment who were deployed to South Africa for the Second Boer War which was comprised of men who had been held captive by the Boer forces. Major Hobbs was buried at Kroonstad, the telegrams came with printed copies of the action report and a personal letter to a Lient Colonel Hobbs which explains that Major Hobbs "Major Hobbs who was killed by my side after having behaved most gallantly", he was hit just below the heart. There is also a short letter about him and his career and an invoice for the purchase of a Marble headstone to mark his grave from his brother supplied by John Cain dated 11th October with newspaper clippings mentioning the death.