Albert Dobbs

Census Address: 23 Bath Row
Place of Birth: Stamford
Date of Birth: 1896
Enlistment Address: 23 Bath Row
Regiment: --
Service Numbers: --
Place of Death: Grantham
Date Died: 1968
23 Bath Row

Albert Dobbs

Albert Dobbs was born in July 1896 and in 1901 the family lived in 9 Church Court, St. Martin’s. By 1911 they had moved to Bath Row. Albert was the son of Eugene and Eliza Dobbs and he had 3 brothers, Henry 18, Douglas 11 and Roy 6 and also a sister Elsie aged 8. His father Eugene initially worked at the Brewery then changed to being a dairyman in Bath Row and living at number 23.

Albert joined the Territorials in 1914. His brother Henry who joined the 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment died in the Somme on November 16th 1916.

Albert married Bertha Beale in April 1915 in Stamford and died in Grantham in March 1968. His younger brother Roy carried on the Dairy business and the Dobbs family were still there in 1963.