Lieutenant-Colonel E. Remington-Hobbs
9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

The Colonel as he liked to be known, was Colonel Edward Remington-Hobbs, DSO, and he was the company chairman. He was a fascinating character, a real ladies’ man and, unfortunately, a chain smoker. He had the rare distinction of being the sole survivor of an aeroplane crash …

(Tony Shelton, Diary of a North London Lad, 2011, 117)

Born on 7 February 1916 in Cranbrook, Kent, Edward Remington-Hobbs was commissioned with the Royal Scots Fusiliers after graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1936. He transferred to a Territorial Army battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders after the outbreak of war in 1939. He attended Staff College, Camberley in 1941 and subsequently became an instructor.

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