Hobart Douglas Firns MID

{{Infobox | name = Hobart Douglas Firns MiD

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| image = | caption = Australian War Memorial PO7642.002 | image2 = | caption2 = Section of Lone Pine Memorial Recommended for actions 21st - 30th August 1915. The wording of his recommendation (posthumous) was:

For gallantry during attack on the Turkish trenches on Kaiajik Aghala.

On 25 Aug 1923 the MiD Certificate was dispatched to the family where it was received on 14 Sep 1923.

Notes

Burial details: Unknown grave, commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Anzac Cove, Turkey.

Hobart's next of kin was his father Charles Firns who moved around with work. He was living at the time of Hobart's enlistment in Serpentine, later moving to Mundijong and then Koorda.

Three brothers also served with the AIF during WW1. Charles Glyn Firns with the 28th Battalion; Frank Thomas Firns, allocated to Artillery but who did not reach the front lines before the armistice; and George Weston Firns who served with the 48th Battalion. While Charles was Wounded in Action in Belgium on 12 Oct 1916 and at Mont St Quentin on 2 Sep 1918, all three returned to Australia during 1919. In 1919 another brother Thomas E Firns was serving on the HMAS Sydney.