237758 S.Sgt. John Gordon Dobney British Army Royal Army Service Corps (d.11th Aug 1943) Gordon Dobney was the only son of Ellen Stewart Dobney nee Hodgkins and Malcolm Gordon Dobney.
His father, Malcolm, had been a Serjeant in the 1/14th London Scottish regiment for 10 years before being killed in WW1 on 6th April 1917 when Gordon was just 18 months old.
Gordon died from disease contracted while being forced by the Japanese to work on the infamous railroad beside Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in, what is now, Thailand. I believe he was cremated but is memorialised in that cemetery.
The loss of her only child in WW2 after the loss of her husband in WW1 had a deep and lasting effect on Great Aunt Nellie, although she lived to the old age of 91, dying in 1981 in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland.
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