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Harry Dobbs

Informatie over geboorte

Algemene Informatie

Beroep:
Bottelaar

Informatie legerdienst

Land:
Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Strijdmacht:
British Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Private
Service nummer:
18489
Dienstneming plaats:
Derby, Derbyshire, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Eenheden:
 —  Grenadier Guards, 1st Bn.  (Laatst gekende eenheid)

Informatie over overlijden

Datum van overlijden:
10/10/1917
Plaats van overlijden:
Pascal Trench, België
Doodsoorzaak:
Killed in action (K.I.A.)
Leeftijd:
24

Gedenkplaats

Tyne Cot Memorial
Paneel: 9A

Onderscheidingen en medailles 3

1914-15 Star
Medaille — 01/09/1919
British War Medal
Medaille — 28/02/1920
Victory Medal
Medaille — 28/02/1920

Points of interest 2

#1 Geboorteplaats
#2 Dienstneming plaats

Mijn verhaal

Harry Dobbs was born in 1893 in Torrisholme, a suburb of Morecambe, Lancashire. He was the second son of Emily and James Dobbs. The family moved a couple of times, due to James Albert’s job as a railway signalman. By 1911 they lived in Derby, Derbyshire, where Harry worked as a boiler tester in a local Brewery. Harry enlisted in 1914 in Derby and served with the Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion, part of the 3rd Guards Brigade, of the Guards Division on the Western front from March 1915 onwards.

On 8 October 1917 the 1st Grenadier Guards moved to the Wood 15 area. The entire 3rd Guards Brigade was lying in divisional reserve, while the 1st and 2nd Guards Brigades attacked German positions at Houthulst Forest on the following day. During the Battle Harry’s Battalion helped carrying the wounded from Verte House to the village of Boezinge. On the 10th the 1st Grenadier Guards moved up and relieved the 1st Irish Guards in support. Battalion Headquarters were at Vee Bend and the men occupied positions at Pascal Trench.

Private Harry Dobbs, 24-years old, might have been killed during the relief, leaving behind his wife Lillian and their 3-year old son, James Albert. Harry has no known grave and is remembered on panel 9A of the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Bestanden 2

Bronnen 5

"Passchendaele. The Day-by-Day Account", McCarthy C., London, Uniform, 2018, pg. 126-127.
Gebruikte bronnen
Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/
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CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1630058/dobbs,-harry/
Gebruikte bronnen
The Long, Long Trail
http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/
Gebruikte bronnen
War Diary Grenadier Guards, 1st Bn.
http://www.nmarchive.com/
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