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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Castlecomer
• Land Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
• Family Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Son of Joseph and Mary Dobbs (daughter of William Harte), of The Chalet, Temple Rd., Dublin
• Education Royal Military Academy; St. Stephens Green School, Dublin and Shrewsbury
• Extra info English International Rugby player

Military service

• Rank Captain & BT-MAJOR (A/Lieutenant Colonel)
• Regiment and unit Signal Corps (A.D. Sigs.) Royal Engineers
• Other data related to military career appointed 2nd Lt. in 1904 ; brevet major in1915; Lt.Col November 1916

Death

• Wounded Hit by a shell while returning from prospecting a new cable trench in the front line
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n°2 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 25

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