Edward Henry Dobson

By Jakealoo on January 26, 2015 ( Leave a comment )

What Price Glory? Soldiers’ Effects Register goes online

Earlier this month Ancestry.com made the “UK, Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929″ database available online. Those of you who subscribe to Ancestry.co.uk or have “World” memberships with other Ancestry […]

By Jakealoo on November 9, 2014 ( 1 Comment )

Remembering Edward H Dobson who died 100 years ago

On November 9, 1914 Lance Corporal Edward Henry Dobson died of wounds suffered during the First Battle of Ypres. He was my great-grandfather’s younger half-brother and barely 20 years of age. Ironically my […]

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Edward Henry Dobson