Word has been received that Corp. Thomas M. Dobbs, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Dobbs of 324 North Willett, died on December 29, of wounds received in Belgium.
Born in Lubbock, TX, Corporal Dobbs came to Memphis as a child. He was a Methodist. He participated in the invasion on Normandy.
He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Arbilee Kelly and Miss Doras Dobbs and a brother, J. E. Dobbs, Jr., all of Memphis.
[The Commercial Appeal, March 25, 1945] |
 Grave marker for Cpl Thomas M. Dobbs in Section
8, Lot W,
1A 217/218 in Forest Hill-Midtown Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.
Cpl Dobbs died of wounds on December 29, 1944 in the
vicinity of the villages of Basse-Bodeux, Erria and Villettes, Belgium.
He was awarded the Purple Heart. |
