Private James Alfred Dolby, 89442

  • Batt -
  • Unit - Machine Gun Corps
  • Section - 50th Company
  • Date of Birth - 1893
  • Died - 09/06/1918
  • Age -

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
Son of Mr and Mrs J. Dolby of Pasture House, Tinwell, Rutland. He went to France on August 9th 1917. He was gassed during the offensive of March 21st 1918, and reported missing on May 27th. Enquiries through the British Red Cross elicited the fact that he was seen lying on the roadside near Maisy badly wounded. Nothing further was heard of him until January 1st 1919 when his widow was notified that he died on June 9th in the Field Hospital at St Erme from the effects of a bullet wound.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Photograph taken from Rutland Remembers website:
https://www.rutlandremembers.org/fallen/146/dolby-corporal-james-alfred

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
  • Birth Place - Tinwell, Rutland
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
  • Unit - Machine Gun Corps
  • Former Unit - Royal Army Service Corps
  • Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
  • Burial Commemoration - St Erme Com. Cem. Ext., France
  • Born - Tinwell, Rutland
  • Enlisted - 27/10/17 In Oakham, Rutland
  • Place of Residence - Tinwell, Rutland, England
  • Memorial - ALL SAINTS CHURCH, TINWELL, RUTLAND

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