Henry Stewart DOBBIE MC

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Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	20 September 1915
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Died of wounds, 7 August 1916, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension
Memorials:	City of Brunswick Honour Roll, Footscray Presbyterian Church Honour Board

20 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 14th Infantry Battalion
16 Oct 1915:	Involvement Lieutenant, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
16 Oct 1915:	Embarked Lieutenant, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne
19 Apr 1917:	Honoured Military Cross, Military Cross 'For conspicuous gallantry. He led a bombing attack against the enemy who had counter attacked against the battalion on his right. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy and the counter attack driven back, some prisoners they had taken being recovered. He was wounded.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62 Date: 19 April 1917.

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His younger brother 341 Corporal Murdo McLaurin Dobbie 24th Battalion AIF was killed in action 22 February 1917. Age 22.

Both the sons of Henry and Elizabeth Jessie Dobbie, of 66, Cross St., Footscray, Victoria, Australia.

Enlisted and served as Henry Stuart DOBBIE