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Military service
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Death:
August 28, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. G. 24.
Digital gallery of Captain John Milton Dobie
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Group Photo
John Dobie Rear Row Left<P> Submitted By Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Group Photo
4th CMR "D" Coy, Subalterns in Jan. 1918 Back row L-R Walter Henry Pfeffer; Lt. Claude Rupert Kormann; Lt. Joseph Bowman Lynn Yule; Lt. Alexander Cameron. Front row L-R John Milton Dobie; Lt. (Capt.) Leslie Gordon Mills; Lt. Tom Rutherford (later: Brigadier General) -
Grave Marker
Milton Dobie's Wooden Cross in France -
Group Photo
Milton Dobie in front of tent (on left) WWI -
Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of Mary Legate
Mary Legate, Milton's fiancée. She never married but was a well loved music teacher in Owen Sound -
Letter
Reverse of photograph of Mary Legate requesting that it should be sent home if something happened to Milton. Mary Legate, Milton's fiancée. She never married but was a well loved music teacher in Owen Sound -
Bible
Inside of small bible belonging to Milton Dobie - sent home with his effects to Mary Legate, Milton's fiancée. She never married but was a well loved music teacher in Owen Sound. -
Badge
Pages of small bible belonging to Milton Dobie - sent home with his effects to Mary Legate, Milton's fiancée. She never married but was a well loved music teacher in Owen Sound. -
Bible
Cover of small bible belonging to Milton Dobie - sent home with his effects to Mary Legate, Milton's fiancée. She never married but was a well loved music teacher in Owen Sound. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 797 of 1084. He was buried about 1000 yards South East of Boiry, 7 ½ miles East, South East of Arras. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and buried in VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY. -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun February 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
Digital gallery of
Captain John Milton Dobie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 398 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT Pas de Calais, France
Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the road from Arras to Cambrai. The VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT is at the north side of the main road between the two villages.
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