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AC. Cecil Hobbs
Royal Air Force
from:Dunster, Somerset
(d.5th of July 1941)
Cecil Hobbs (aged 21) was a RAF Air Mechanic he served at RAF Harwell and was on board SS Anselm and had gone below to write home to his pregnant wife Audrey (affectionately known as Judy) when the ship was struck by a German torpedo and sank. 1210 RAF and military personnel were on board plus the ship's crew.
He died 5th of July 1941 and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial . Son of Fredrick William and Emma Hobbs, husband of Audrey Diana Hobbs of Chilton, Berkshire.