LIEUT.-COL. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL HOBSON, 99TH DECCAN INFANTRY, ATTD. 2/10TH JATS, I.A. DIED AT JHANSI FROM ENTERIC, DECEMBER 19TH, 1917. AGED 47. At the School 1885—88 (Day Boy). Lieut.-Col. A. C. Hobson was bom at Tonbridge, February 21st, 1871, and was the second son of the late Major-General Julian Campbell Hobson, Indian Staff Corps, and the late Mrs. J. C. Hobson, and married on November 16th, 1903, Henrietta, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Crane, of Eastbourne. His only son, Geoffrey Campbell Hobson, entered the School (P.H.) in September, 1918, and left in July, 1922. Entering the School in September, 1885, from the Castle School, Tonbridge, he left in 1888 and went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, with a Queen's India Cadetship. On passing out, he received his commission, dated August 13th, 1892, in the 4th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), but in 1895 he transferred to the Indian Army and was posted to the 1st Madras Pioneers, and then in the following year to the 6th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent, now the 99th Deccan Infantry. He served in China at the time of the Boxer Rising in 1900 and received the medal, and was promoted Captain in 1901 and Major on August 13th, 1910. From 1911 to 1915 he was Recruiting Officer for Hindustani Hindus, and then was on active service as second in command of his Regiment, on the North-West Frontier, and took part in the operations against the Mahsuds and the Relief of Sarwekai in March, 1917. He then went with his Regiment to Mesopotamia, but a few months later was recalled to India to raise the 2/10th Jats, being gazetted Temporary Lieut.-Colonel in command of this Battalion, July 27th, 1917. On December 19th, 1917, he died at Jhansi of enteric contracted there. Many tributes to the great affection and esteem in which he was held have been received, and his former CO., writing of Colonel Hobson as his oldest friend in the Indian Army, said :— " He was as straight and loyal a friend as he was an honest and outspoken officer, and his loss is more than I can express."