Photo: Brian Chandler
Left hand page
In loving memory
of
Lionel
beloved son of
Ethel
and the late
George Dobinson
died
Feb.18th 1921
aged 15 years.
Right hand page
also of
Pte.
George Dobinson
N.F.
killed in France
Oct. 24th 1918
aged 29 years
interred
at Bermeran
Com. Cemetery
Colin McMillan has provided the following:
George was born in the Jan-Feb-Mar quarter of 1890 in Horton, Northumberland (near Shankhouse and the Three Horse Shoes).
In 1901 the 11 year old George was living with his parents and siblings at 3 Double Row, Horton. George’s father was 52 year old Joseph Dobinson, a coal miner, deputy overman, and his mother was 32 year old Mary Alice Dobinson. George’s siblings were Ann (19), Mary Annabel (8), Robert (5) and Margaret (3). Also living in the household at the time were Joseph’s son-in-law 24 year old Ralph Walton, a miner hewer, and his wife (another of George’s sisters) 21 year old Jane and their 1 month old child, Joseph.
George is recorded as having married Ethel Littlehales in the Apr-May-Jun quarter of 1913. They had a son, Kenneth, on 11th February 1916.
George Dobinson died on 25th October 1918.
George Dobinson is remembered in New Delaval on N51.01 and in Bothal on B48.01
