View source for Dobson James E. Pte 3061755

{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Dobson James E.
|Army number=3061755
|Rank=Private
|Date of birth=5/9/1915.
|Age=30 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined the Royal Scots, no enlistment date.  Transferred to the Black Watch 25/9/1940  (Enlistment Book entry BW358/4/86) and posted to 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy.  Transferred to 1st Battalion Black Watch - probably on the disbandment of 1st Tyneside Scottish at the end of August 1944.  Served in Germany post-war.  DIED in Traffic Accident 14/1/46, Authority:- CAS/W/6/Serial No.804 dated 22/1/46.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death 14-Jan-46.   Buried initially in Ohlsdorfer Friedhof, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg Cemetery.  Re-buried Grave 3A.G.6. Hamburg Cemetery 21/6/1946 in a concentration exercise.
|Home address=Private Dobson was a resident of Leeds at the time of his death, living with his wife and children at 44 Well Close Terrace.  Married Winifred M. Johnson  in July 1939 (to be confirmed).
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not yet known - probably rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=25/9/1940 just before the posting to Iceland.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Source table=1TS
}}

Research suggests Pte Dobson was born in Chester-le Street in 1916, father Septimus, mother Ellen (nee McCain) and