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Hotblack was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1915 and served in the First World War as an intelligence officer in France before transferring to the then "Heavy Branch" of the Machine Gun Corps (later the Royal Tank Corps) in 1916.
He was 20 years old, and a Section Commander and Acting Captain in A Battalion, Tank Corps,