BORN HULL 1896. HULL PAL. SON OF JAMES DOSSOR (1873-1938) & EDITH ALLEN (1875-1947), OF 5 HUTT STREET, SPRING BANK, AND 85 BELVOIR STREET, HULL. ELDEST OF 3 CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A CLERK. HE MARRIED EMMA WILKINSON (1888-1918) ON 16/11/1914 IN HULL. THEIR SON STANLEY WAS BORN IN 1915.
ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 08/12/1914, GIVING THE AGE 21 YEARS AND 1 MONTH. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 130 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST.SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. APPOINTED LANCE CORPORAL, ON 02/08/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 19. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, EMMA AND CHILD AT 1 CHATSWORTH AVENUE, WELBECK STREET, HULL, AND THEN TO JAMES DOSSER, GUARDIAN OF HIS CHILD.
