Regimentally Important Isle of Wight Rifles Forage Cap Badge and Collar Badges 1902-08 on Retailers Card Belonging to Colonel Hobart, First Commanding Officer of the Regiment, fine officers bronze Broderick / Forage cap badge in bronze with blade fittings to the reverse, accompanied by a pair of bronze collar badges and a small silvered strung bugle emblem insignia. All mounted onto a Samuel Brothers Ltd, London, retailers card. Part of the estate of Colonel Hobart, the first commander of the 8th Territorial Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles. 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 grouping 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.