Regimentally Important Isle of Wight Rifles Cap Badge Sent to Colonel Hobart by Jennens & Co for Approval and Handwritten Note Ordering Badges Required, being a bronzed enlisted ranks pattern cap badge with lug fittings to the reverse. The badge is mounted onto a Jennens & Co card and with handwritten note in the hand of Colonel Hobart, the first commander of the Isle of Wight Rifles, giving the total amount requested to be produced by the firm, 500 badges required on 5th January 1909. n December 1906, Major Hobart retired from the Regular Army, and was placed on the Reserve of Officers; but in 1908, on the inauguration of the Territorial Force, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Princess Beatrice’s Isle of Wight Rifles (8th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment), which he raised and reorganized from a small volunteer nucleus and commanded till 1913, when he retired. He again acted as Gold Staff Officer at a Coronation—that of King George V and Queen Mary, in 1911. On the European War breaking out in 1914, Lieutenant Colonel Hobart, after serving for short periods on the Embarkation Staff at Southampton and the Military Landing Staff at Havre, was sent to the front in Flanders as a Railhead Commandant, being subsequently appointed Administrative Commandant of the railheads of an army. He was mentioned in Despatches in 1916 and 1918, and received the 1914 Star. Lieutenant Colonel C V C Hobart married, on 10 December 1900, at St Peter’s, Eaton Square, London, Violet Verve, second daughter of John Wylie, of West Cliff Hall, Hants, and they had one son, Robert Hampden, born 7 May 1915.his badge was purchased by Rod Flood at auction many years ago along with a number of other items including his full uniform which we sold in February 2023. We believe that the items had been sold by family descent at that time. Late Rod Flood collection

Victorian 2nd Volunteer Battalion Black Watch Royal Highlanders Glengarry Badge, fine other ranks example with two lug fittings to the reverse; 5th Volunteer Battalion Black Watch glengarry badge with two lug fittings to the reverse; Victorian Royal Highlanders Black Watch other ranks glengarry badge and a pair of volunteer battalion collar badges. (5 items)