DOBIE Paul Nelson

  • First Name(s):
    Paul 
    Nelson 
  • Surname:
    DOBIE
  • Service Number:
    103551
  • Rank:

    Flying Officer

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    1 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    21st October 1942
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, Panel 66.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of George Nelson Dobie, and of Katherine Ivy Dobie, of Malvern, Worcestershire

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DOBIE Paul Nelson Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern College WW2 Memorial
Malvern Priory
Malvern WW2 War Memorial

Further Information About DOBIE Paul Nelson

Paul Dobie was born in 1922. He attended Malvern College in House 1 from 1937 to 1940.

Paul Nelson Dobie was the pilot of one of two Typhoon aircraft that were lost and the pilots killed in an assumed mid air collision 4 miles east of Amble (bodies not recovered).  In one aircraft was 103551 Flying Officer Paul Nelson Dobie, R.A.F.V.R., son of George Nelson Dobie, and Katherine Ivy Dobie, of Malvern, Worcestershire aged 20.  The other aircraft was flown by Flight Lieutenant Philip E. Gerry Sayer who was the chief test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Company.  The purpose of the flight was to test a gunsight at the Druridge Bay Ranges.

Paul Dobie has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Runnymede Memorial.

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