Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal A. E. Dobie, King’s Regiment, who served in Burma as part of the Second Chindit Force and was severely wounded in action in 1944

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, with Chindit emblem affixed to riband (3771527. Cpl. A. E. Dobie. Kings.) mounted as worn, contact marks and edge knocks to last, good fine and better (5) £200-£240

Albert Edward Dobie was born in Liverpool in 1920 and served as a Chindit under Major-General Orde Wingate in Burma. Detailed to guerilla-style long range penetration missions behind Japanese lines, he is recorded in the British Army Casualty List (1944) as being wounded in action whilst serving as Lance Corporal in the 1st Battalion, King’s Regiment. The circumstances were later detailed by author Jack Lindo in his self-published autobiography From Dingle to Delhi (2003):

‘After we came down from the hills onto the Mogaung plain, and had suffered our first casualty, we of the King’s Company, now attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers, were told to go and remove some Japs who were occupying a hill. We set off along a track to this hill, we were about 80 strong. The leading section, led by Corporal (sic) Dobie, the section leader, came under fire. Corporal Dobie was severely wounded in the legs, having one of his knee caps shot away.’

Evacuated to medical attention, Dobie survived the Second War and died in Liverpool in 1988.

Sold with original Chindit cloth service badge and title; and copied research.