Captain William Cary Dobbs

Regiment: Middlesex Regiment
Panel reference: Panel 49 and 51.
Date published: 31/08/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 31/07/1917
Cemetery: Ypres (menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Captain William Cary Dobbs, Middlesex Regiment, who was shot and killed instantaneously in the early morning of July 31st whilst leading his Company in an attack, was the eldest son of the late Robert Conway Dobbs, of Camphire, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, and grandson of the late Hon. William Cary Dobbs, a Judge of the Landed Estates Court, Ireland, who was M.P. for Carrickfergus, 1857-59. Born on October 14th, 1870, he was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. On the outbreak of war he attempted to rejoin his old regiment, but they were not in the first week of the war taking men of his age, and it was not till November 1914 that he was accepted in the army. He then obtained a permanent commission in a Special Reserve Battalion