Reginald Hobbs

Major General Reginald Geoffrey Stirling Hobbs, CB, DSO, OBE (8 August 1908 − 7 November 1977) was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1954 to 1957.

Hobbs was the eldest son of Brigadier General Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs and Frances Graham Stirling, daughter of Sir William Stirling.

[2] He played rugby for England against South Africa at Twickenham in 1932,[3] and then served in India.

[2] He fought in the Second World War, becoming commanding officer of the 104th Regiment (Essex Yeomanry), Royal Horse Artillery in the Western Desert taking part in the Battle of El Alamein in 1942 and then being deployed to North West Europe as a General Staff Officer.

[2] Then in 1950, he became Commander Royal Artillery for the 1st Division in the Middle East.

Staff officers of the 21st Army Group , June 1944. Colonel R. G. S. Hobbs, wearing peaked cap , is stood third from the right in the back row.