REGINALD GRAHAM DOBSON

RANK: Major.



REGIMENT: 6th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) Attached 75th company Machine Gun Corps.

BORN: Garforth.

ENLISTED: Leeds.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 04/01/1919.

AGED: 24.

CEMETERY:Kantara War Memorial Cemetery is situated at Kantara East on the eastern side of the Suez Canal, 160 kilometres north-east of Cairo Egypt.

GRAVE /PANEL: E. 458.

Reginald was the son of James William Dobson a Colliery Manager Born Lofthouse near Wakefield 1861 and Mary Graham Born Wakefield 1860 they married at Wakefield in 1883.


Reginald went to Leeds University in 1913 and joined the Officer Training Corps, being given the rank of Lance-Corporal.

At the outbreak of war Reginald became a Machine Gun Officer and joined the 6th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment. He was then transfered to the 146th Brigade Machine Gun Corps.

He went to France in April 1915 being promoted to Lieutenant in the May.


Reginald was wounded twice firstly near Iepers in Belgium in January 1916 and then again on the morning of 1st July 1916 at the Somme battlefield.

Reginald was promoted to Captain and was sent to Egypt, in the April of 1917 to command the 229th Machine Gun Corps.


He was involved in the fighting for Jerusalum and was mentioned in General Allenbys Dispatches.

Reginald was then promoted to Major and at Christmas 1917 he was in Cairo on leave when he contracted Pneumonia.

Reginald lies in peace at Kantara an important point in the defence of Suez against Turkish attacks which marked the starting point of the new railway east towards Sinai and Palestine,Reginald would more than likely have been buried in another cemetery and moved here after the war.