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Leongatha & District
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY OF THE FORMER WOORAYL SHIRE
Dumbalk • Inverloch • Koonwarra • Leongatha • Meeniyan • Ruby
Tarwin Lower • Venus Bay • Walkerville
DOBSON, Stanislaus Gordon
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Private 787
4th Light Horse
Richmond, Victoria
His mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Dobson of Meeniyan later of Moonee Ponds
Meeniyan, Victoria 11/11/1914
Age 22 years, 5'8", 9 stone 7 pounds, brown eyes and light brown hair
Roman Catholic
Farm labourer
He returned to Australia suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and died in 1921
He was buried in the Meeniyan Cemetery
Lived and worked in Tarwin, Victoria
11/11/14 He enlisted in Meeniyan
His medical was signed by Dr. Molloy
He is on the Meeniyan Honour Roll
He died after being discharged and his mother Mary Ann wrote on 5/12/1921 asking that she be sent his medals, plaque and scroll
He was buried in Meeniyan
His brother John Bede Dobson enlisted on 12/7/15 at the age of 18. He was in the 21st Battalion. He embarked on HMAT Warilda on 8/2/16.
He returned to Australia on 29/5/19
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