Notes
All extra details are based on information supplied by the College Archivist (see Additional Information). This included the following biographical details: '(1913) Born 8 December 1894, 130 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire; son of Alfred Ernest Hobbs, Pharmaceutical Chemist, and Mary Octavia Warwick. Subject(s): Mathematics. Tutor(s): L H K Bushe-Fox. Educ: King Charles's School, Tunbridge Wells; Skinner's School; Tonbridge School. Career: Enlisted in Royal West Kent Regiment; gazetted Second Lieutenant, 10th (Service) Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment 1914; RFC 1915. Died 15 December 1915 (shot down over Valenciennes by the German Pilot Immelmann).' A second biographical source (see References) states 'Rapid advances in aviation technology saw many Johnians join the Royal Flying Corps, and many paid the price of this new type of war fought in the air. Alan Hobbs, a mathematician, was shot down in France in 1915. His colleagues on subsequent patrols saw his plane’s wreckage on the roofs of houses behind German lines. The Germans informed Hobbs’ superiors of his death, and that he was given a military funeral. At the funeral, members of the German Flying Corps laid wreathes on Hobbs’ grave.'