| Accession Number | P06456.004 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
| Date made | c 1916 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Informal portrait of 858 Private (Pte) Morton Wilfred Dobson of Penguin, Tas. who enlisted as a ...
Description
Informal portrait of 858 Private (Pte) Morton Wilfred Dobson of Penguin, Tas. who enlisted as a reinforcement in the 26th Battalion on 14 April 1915. Pte Dobson sailed for Egypt on board HMAT Ascanius on 26 June 1915 and joined the 26th Battalion on Gallipoli. He sailed to France with his battalion in 1916. Pte Dobson was wounded in action, and temporarily blinded by the shell burst, on 25 May 1916 and did not return to his unit until 9 August 1916. He was hospitalised with illness in November 1916, rejoining his unit on 28 February 1917. Later that year on 16 June 1917 he was promoted to Corporal. Pte Dobson was killed in action in France on 29 August 1918 , aged 21 years. It was reported he was buried in an isolated grave by the side a bank about 500 yards north of the road to Barleux and 800 yards from the Villers Carbonnel to Perone road, one and a half miles south-south west of Perone. Pte Dobson's remains were later exhumed and re-interred in the Assevillers New British Cemetery, France.