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About George Dobson<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
About George Dobson<\/h2>\nGeorge was born in Summer Hill, Sydney in 1895 to Edward Gilbert & Catherine (nee Cross) Dobson. He was the first born child to the couple, who lived in Queensland and New South Wales, but by 1899 had settled in Western Australia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n In 1902 the family moved to Broome where they opened Dobson’s Store, which was located on the corner of corner of Hamersley and Frederick Streets and sold everything, from groceries to beer. The family were active in the community, often hosting garden parties and their children were involved in various clubs. George was a crack shot and the champion of the Broome Rifle Club.<\/p>\n George enlisted in Broome in November 1914 with a number of other Broome men, including William Telford, Charles Chandler, Cecil Rodgers and Cornelius Townsend, who were all assigned to the 11th Battalion. The 11th Battalion was among the first AIF units raised for World War One, and the first to be raised in Western Australia. The group left Broome by ship in late November and arrived at Blackboy Hill Camp by the end of the month. After training for a couple of months the embarkation orders came and George and his battalion left Fremantle aboard the HMAT Itonus<\/em>, bound for Egypt on the 22nd February 1915.<\/p>\n The 11th Battalion had already left for the Lemnos Island so George and the rest of the 3rd Reinforcements bided their time in Egypt. After the advance in Gallipoli stalled the 3rd Reinforcements received their orders and travelled to the Dardanelles on the 7th May 1915. The 11th were situated at Tasmania Post along the ANZAC Cove. The conditions at the time were appalling, the battalion was under continuous shell fire and the men were suffering with enteric fever and diarrhea, made worse by the horrendous flies that swarmed in the trenches.<\/p>\n The battalion was sent to reserve for two weeks, but despite this there was no rest for the men, as they were needed to supply a large number of fatigue parties day and night. It was around the time that the 11th Battalion were sent back to Tasmania Post and orders were received to storm and capture a Turkish trench that George received a serious gun shot wound to his abdomen. After being admitted to the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station he was transferred to the hospital ship HMHA Sicilia<\/em>, but died on the 30th July. George was buried at sea, but is memorialised on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey.<\/p>\n George was the second Broome man to be killed in action and the community of Broome rallied around the family.<\/p>\n [su_quote cite=”George Dobson to his mother, 29th May 1915″] Dear Mum, I received your letter of March 21 a few days ago. We saw the (censored) she (censored) where we are most of the (censored). We are having a fair time; the tucker is better than it was in Egypt or at Blackboy. Do you get the money I left you? I am .writing this in a hole about 5ft. in the ground. A great drawback to this place is water\u2014 we are lucky If we get a wash every two or three days. Your loving son, Geo. Dobson.[\/su_quote]<\/p>\n [su_quote cite=”George Dobson to his mother, 19th June 1915″]Dear Mum, I have met a lot of Broome men about here lately, and more seem to be arriving every day. Things have been very quiet about here lately. The last big attack we had was on on May 19. when the Turks came up in massed formation. They lost 2,000 killed and about 7,000 wounded. This is not a bad country to be out of. We are having a pretty fair time here now. We do a lot of growling, but they say it is a soldier’s privilege to growl, and there is not much notice taken of it. Your loving son, Geo. Dobson.[\/su_quote]<\/p>\n [su_expand more_text=”Show more” less_text=”Show less” height=”2″ link_color=”#e5be5e” link_align=”center”] [\/su_expand]<\/p>\n [su_carousel source=”media: 728,727,725,1167,1166,1263,1013″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”720″ items=”4″]<\/p>\n View George Dobson at the National Archives of Australia<\/a> About George Dobson George was born in Summer Hill, Sydney in 1895 to Edward Gilbert & Catherine (nee Cross) Dobson. He was the first born child to the couple, who lived in Queensland and New South Wales, but by 1899 had settled in Western … Continue reading DOBSON George Edward<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions\/2716"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rifleclub-1024x718.jpg\")
Broome Connection<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>War Service<\/h2>\n
Enlistment Details<\/h2>\n
\nDate of Enlistment: 23\/11\/1914
\nPlace of Enlistment: Broome, Western Australia
\nOccupation: Storekeeper
\nAge at Enlistment: 19
\nService Number: 1533
\nUnit: 11th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcements
\nRank: Private
\nFate: Killed in Action
\nPlace of Death: Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey
\nDate of Death: 20\/07\/1915
\nCemetery or Memorial Details: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey (Buried at sea)
\nPlace of Association: Broome, Western Australia<\/p>\nNewspaper Articles<\/h2>\n
Other Online Resources<\/h2>\n
\nView George Dobson at the Australian War Memorial<\/a>
\nView ABC Kimberley Article on George Dobson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"