Morton Wilfred DOBSON

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DOBSON, Morton Wilfred

Service Number:	858
Enlisted:	14 April 1915, Ulverstone, tasmania
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Pine Road, Tasmania, Australia, 20 March 1897
Home Town:	Pine Road West, Central Coast, Tasmania
Schooling:	Pinewood State School, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 29 August 1918, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Assevillers New British Cemetery Plot III, Row A, Grave No. 9
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Penguin to the Great War

World War 1 Service

14 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Ulverstone, tasmania
29 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 858, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 858, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane
29 Aug 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 858, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 858 awm_unit: 26th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-08-29

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Biography

"858 Private Morton Wilfred Dobson of Penguin, Tas. who enlisted as a reinforcement in the 26th Battalion on 14 April 1915. Pte Dobson sailed for Egypt on board HMAT Ascanius on 26 June 1915 and joined the 26th Battalion on Gallipoli. He sailed to France with his battalion in 1916. Pte Dobson was wounded in action, and temporarily blinded by the shell burst, on 25 May 1916 and did not return to his unit until 9 August 1916. He was hospitalised with illness in November 1916, rejoining his unit on 28 February 1917. Later that year on 16 June 1917 he was promoted to Corporal. Pte Dobson was killed in action in France on 29 August 1918 , aged 21 years. It was reported he was buried in an isolated grave by the side a bank about 500 yards north of the road to Barleux and 800 yards from the Villers Carbonnel to Perone road, one and a half miles south-south west of Perone. Pte Dobson's remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Assevillers New British Cemetery, France." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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