Montague Charles Dobson (June 4, 1879 - June 25, 1915) was a British career officer in the Royal Field Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery. Dobson was born in Maseru, Basutoland (modern-day Lesotho). Educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned in 1898 and served with distinction in the Second Boer war (1899 - 1902), earning the Queen’s and King’s South Africa Medals and two mentions in dispatches. He later single-handedly conducted a comprehensive reconnaissance survey of Basutoland for the British Army’s Geographical Section. For this remarkable work, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1904. During World War I (1914 - 1918), Dobson rose to the rank of Major and served in France with the 21st Division, where he was killed in action at the Battle of Loos on 26 September 1915. He is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery in France. In 1910, he married Florisse Sloley, daughter of H. C. Sloley, then Resident Commissioner of Basutoland.
