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Military service
Service number:
159063
Age:
25
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
2nd Div. Ammunition Col. attd. 2nd T.M. Bty.
Death:
October 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 31.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Dora Ellen Dobbins, of Corse, Staunton, Glos., England.
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Gunner James Dobbins
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Gunner James Dobbins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 78 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Colincamps is a village about 16 kilometres north of Albert. SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY is about 3 kilometres south-east of the village on the north side of the road from Mailly-Maillet to Puisieux.
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