Name
Albert Henry Dobbs
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
32110
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
II. K. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
LIFE'S VICTORY WON NOW COMETH REST
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Albert Henry Dobbs was born in 1887, in Willesden/Harlesden, (Depending on the record) London/Middlesex, the son of George Dobbs, a Railway Engine Driver and Ann Dobbs (nee Weeks). He was one of eight children.
1891 Census records Albert aged 3, staying with his Uncle and Aunt George and Clara Weeks, in North Warnborough, Hampshire. His parents George and Ann Dobbs and his six siblings were living in Charlton Road, Willesden, Lon/Middx. His mother Ann died in October that year.
1901 Census records Albert aged 13, living with his widower father and seven siblings at, 69, Melville Road, Willesden, Lon/Middx.
Alberts father George died in January 1911. The 1911 Census records Albert (23) and his younger brother Sidney (19), both parents deceased, and employed as Clerks, living at, 29, Mora Road, Cricklewood, N.W., and they have a live-in Housekeeper Harriett Brunning. (Harriett was their Foster Mother).
At the outbreak of war Albert was living in Drayton Road, Borehamwood, Herts.
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted at Bedford, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 32110. On completion of his training Albert served on the Western Front.
He died on 10 May 1917, at No. 2 Australian General Hospital, Wimereux, France, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
A. G. Dobbs Esq., 7, Clayton Avenue, Wembley, Middx. ordered his headstone inscription: "LIFE'S VICTORY WON NOW COMETH REST". His foster mother Harriett Brunning of 60, Pine Road, Cricklewood, N. W. 2. Received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 2 February 1918, later increased to 6/-, and his War Gratuity of £4. His elder brother Alfred George Dobbs received his Pay Owing of £3-19s-6d.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
