Born at Malton.
Enlisted by the 7th Hussars for the 8th, at Manchester on the 1st of February 1855.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Miller.
Embarked for the Crimea on the 24th of May 1855 and joining the regiment on the 15th of June.
Discharged on the "Reduction of the Regiment," from Dundalk on the 8th of November 1856.
Served 1 year 281 days.
Conduct and character: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
A Crimean medal with four clasps (and in the wrong order) the Turkish Crimea and Indian Mutiny medal with clasp for Lucknow to "James Hobson. 8th Hussars." (and all with re-engraved naming) were offered in a Glendining's auction on the 2/3 of November 1905, and realised the sum of 19/-. The Crimean medal only, still in its wrong state, was known to be in the Regimental Museum of the Queen's Royal Hussars at Eastbourne in 1996. (In 1957 a Major Otley of the regiment wrote an article for the Regimental Journal in which he said, when referring to a collection of medals held by the regiment: "Jas. Hobson was one of the many who were at Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, for his medal carries these clasps. The muster rolls of the Crimean campaign are still in existence, but Jas. Hobson does not appear on the one in the Officers' Mess. Was he attached to us, perhaps as one of Captain Duberley's pay clerks...")