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Personal data

• Name DOBSON
• Initials F
• First name FRANK
• Place of birth Cleckheaton
• Country West Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dobson, 4, Brooklyn-street, Cleckheaton; one elder brother, Samuel, also served; a sister, Hannah; husband of Hilda Lambert (formerly Dobson), of 12, Lime St., Westgate, Cleckheaton; one son, Hubert (1915)
• Profession Employed by the Hunsworth Dyeing Company
• Extra info Attestation papers show regimental n° 1259

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 28 March 1912, Cleckheaton Territorials
• Service number 200142
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/4th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
• Division - Brigade 147th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 49th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Embodied service 4 August 1914; to France April 1915; appointed shoeing smith, July 1915

Death

• Wounded 10 December
• Type of wounds Badly fractured skull
• Date of death 12 December 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - DD - 6A

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