Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (14 June 1885 – 19 February 1957), also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer...

took their nickname from the 79th Division's commander, Major General Percy Hobart. The vehicles converted were chiefly Churchill tanks, and American-supplied...

preparations for the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944, D-Day. Major-General Percy Hobart commanded the division and was in charge of the development of armoured...

March 1941, in Yorkshire under Northern Command, under Major-General Percy Hobart. A veteran of the Royal Tank Regiment, he had already strongly influenced...

specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart, informally known as "Hobart's Funnies". It was produced from October 1943, in time...

classifications, which were made part of the overall doctrine with the work of Percy Hobart and Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. The next development of the more heavily...

Hobart (1595–1632), English politician Percy Hobart (1885–1957), British Second World War major general and armoured vehicle innovator Robert Hobart (1836–1928)...

Division in Egypt commanded by the influential Percy Hobart. Keightley was able to benefit from Hobart's tutelage for only a brief period and, having been...

(UK): Major General Richard Gale 79th Armoured Division: Major General Percy Hobart provided specialised armoured vehicles which supported the landings on...

Rifle Corps (1st KRRC). In the meantime, on 27 September, Major-General Percy Hobart was reassigned from being the Director of Military Training and ordered...