Notes
The Roll lists his address as 40 Princes Road, Old Fletton. It records his date of death as 25/11/1917, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private William Dobney, regimental number 51943, died aged 28 on 26/11/1917 while serving in the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, and is buried in grave III.A.10 at Tincourt New British Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Mrs Eliza Dobney of Gosberton Risegate, Spalding, Lincolnshire. William's date of death is also recorded as 26/11/1917 in Soldiers Died in the Great War and in the Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects).