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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Forest Gilbert Dobson
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Lance Corporal
112th Battalion
September 4, 1897 (Actual September 4, 1900)
Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS
February 18, 1916
Yarmouth, NS
Yarmouth, NS
18/15
5 feet, 5 inches
Fair
Brown
Light Brown
(Recruit) 29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery
Cotton Mill Worker
Baptist
Single
Mrs. Hattie Dobson (Mother) Argyle Sound, NS
July 2, 1919 (Halifax) on demobilization
Forest Gilbert Dobson was the son of Arthur Franklin Dobson(1872–1928) and Harriet Evelyn Frost
(1885-1949). In 1910 the family was living in Rockport, Massachusetts, US. At enlistment Forest was
living in Yarmouth, NS. Post WWI, Forest returned to the United States. He died on February 23,
1981 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, US.
He served in the 112th Battalion (Canada, England), 25th Bttalion (France), and Canadian Military
Police Force (Canada 1919).
Forest Gilbert Dobson
Forest Dobson and Dorothy Frances Baker
Forest Dobson and Stanley Potter Baker
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Library and Archive Canada
Photos: Courtesy of David Hahn
