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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Gordon Highlanders
Division:
C Company, 2nd Battalion
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
October 5, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Col. H. H. Dobbie (Indian Army) and Margaret (daughter of T. Forlong-Gordon, J.P.), of St. Erins, Tarbert, Loch Fyneside, Argyll.
Brother of Second Lieutenant Herbert William Dobbie, who died while serving with the Royal Berkshire Regiment.
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Record of Service
Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918 published by the Bank of Montreal 1921. -
Bank of Montreal Memorial
Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918 published by the Bank of Montreal 1921. -
Biography
From Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918 published by the Bank of Montreal 1921. -
Photo of John Shedden Dobbie
From Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918 published by the Bank of Montreal 1921. -
Article
In honoured memory. -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of November 28, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y304uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Shedden Dobbie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 576 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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