Name
Alfred Dobbs
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/10/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
98323
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
237th Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 154 to 159 and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church, St Mary’s Church Lychgate, Great Wymondley
Pre War
Alfred was born in 1889, in Great Wymondley, Herts. Son of
William Dobbs and Ellen Dobbs (nee Lake). The youngest of four children, he was
Baptised on the 8th September 1889, in Great Wymondley, Herts. The 1891 Census records Alfred aged 1, living
with his parents, brother George 11, sisters Elizabeth 8, and Eleanor 5, in
Great Wymondley. 1901 was the same and
in 1911 Alfred was 21, still living at home with his parents, and elder sister
Elizabeth 28, in Great Wymondley.
Alfred Married Elsie Emma Titmus on the 14th July 1915, in
St Ippolyts, Herts. They had one son Noel William Dobbs.
Wartime Service
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Adrian Dunne, Stuart Osborne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild