F/Sgt Dobson was lost in Lancaster I HK604 WP-G of 90 Squadron, which crashed into the North Sea on a mission to Kiel from RAF Tuddenham. The bodies of three of the crew were washed ashore on Sylt, but F/Sgt Dobson has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1 page 396
Acknowledgements: Simon Glancey; Tony Hibberd
Alexander Dobson is remembered at Alnwick on A11.01, A11.17 and A11.53
