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Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Smart Hobday, New Zealand Volunteers Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), V.R. (Major Henry S. E. Hobday, Active List (Unattached) N.Z. Vols. (1906)) engraved naming; New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal, E.VII.R., 2nd type reverse (Major H. S. E. Hobday, Active List (Unattached) N.Z. Vols. (1906)) nearly extremely fine (2) £200-250 Footnote Henry Smart Hobday was born in the Old Kent Road, London, on 7 December 1857. At the age of 5 he went to New Zealand with his parents and was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. He joined the Christchurch Rifles in about 1886 and then obtained a commission as Lieutenant with the Sydenham Rifles. During 1887-89 he went to England on special leave, attending a course at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham. Returning to New Zealand, he transferred to the Wellington Rifles and was appointed to the command as Captain in January 1891. In 1894 he was appointed a Captain of ‘A’ Company, Canterbury Rifles (later renamed Christchurch City Rifles). In June 1897 he was appointed Adjutant of the North Canterbury Battalion of Infantry Volunteers. In 1901, Captain Hobday transferred to the Unattached Active List of Volunteers; later in the year he was promoted to Major. He was appointed District Adjutant for Canterbury in February 1902. For his long service, Major Hobday was gazetted the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal (New Zealand Gazette 10 January 1907) (See note below). A few months later he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration (New Zealand Gazette 1 August 1907). Hobday was also awarded the New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal, published in G.O. 171 of 21 May 1906. Major Hobday continued to serve on the Unattached List until he retired with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 31 August 1911 Note: Oldham & Delahunt in Orders, Decorations and Medals Awarded to New Zealanders, state that a total of 361 awards of the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal with the effigy of Queen Victoria, were issued between 16 February 1898 and 9 February 1910. Captain G. T. Stagg in The Long Service Medals awarded in the New Zealand Army 1887-1957 records that from its institution in 1898 until 30 April 1902, there were 137 awards of which 120 were Victoria issue. However J. M. A. Tamplin in The Volunteer Long Service Medal notes that in New Zealand, the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal with the effigy of Queen Victoria was issued for some time after the medal was replaced by the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Medal. New Zealand recipients gazetted the ‘Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal’ actually received the ‘Volunteer Force Long Service Medal’. It is presumed that the authorities in New Zealand were using up the old stock already purchased from the United Kingdom. Awards of the old Volunteer Force Long Service Medal continued to be made until about 1910. With copied research.