Source: Bruce Remembers during follow-up research re. Dobson. Several Dobsons in the 18th Battalion; the relationship is probably siblinghood.
Family Search: Private Earl Alvin Dobson was born on 3 October 1894 in Southampton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada; his father, George Thomas Dobson, was 35, and his mother, Catherine Sophia Hunt, was 34. He married Rachel Mary Case on 23 June 1923, in Wiarton, Bruce, Canada West, British North America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Wiarton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, in 1923. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1931, at the age of 37, his occupation is listed as cashier and computing clerk, Canada Customs in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada. He died on 4 September 1986, in Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 91, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada.
008281/23 (Bruce Co) Earl Alvin DOBSON, 28, civil servant, Southampton, Wiarton, s/o George T. DOBSON (b. Southampton Ont) & Catherine HUNT, married Rachel Mary CASE, 28, nurse, Moosejaw, Wiarton, d/o Joseph CASE (b. Blanchard Ont) & Hannah COLLISON, witn: J.C. CASE of Owen Sound & Leonard E. DOBSON of Wiarton, 27 June 1923, Wiarton
Link: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/bruce1923.htm
