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Name Frederick Hobson No. 57113 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 858 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Norwood, London, England
Place Of Death Near Lens, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 17 October 1917
VC Presented 8 May 1918 by the Governor-General of Canada, Duke of Devonshire at the Legislature, Toronto, Canada to his sister, Florence Brown
Memorials
P Named on Vimy Memorial to the Missing (inner side wall), 8 miles north of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on War Memorial, Queens Square, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
P Heritage Foundation plaque at Valour Square, Cambridge Armoury (formerly Galt), Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Branch of the Legion named after him, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Frederick Hobson VC Drive, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
P Hobson Street, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
He joined the Army at 14 as a Drummer Boy and served in the Boer War, discharged after 15 years service, he emigrated to Canada
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 23 September 1873
DIED 18 August 1917 AGE 43
VC Won 15 August 1917 AGE 43
Place VC Won N.W. Of Lens, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
