BORN HULL 1880. THIRD SON OF WILLIAM & JANE DODDS AT 96, COLTMAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS A CHEMIST SUPPLIER. ONE OF FOUR SONS.
HE ENLISTED AT STAFFORD, STAFFORDSHIRE. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 31529 ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1/4TH SEAFORTH HIGHLAMDERS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 16/09/1917, AGED 36. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM.
BURIED: Hospital Farm Cemetery, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium.
HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “DEARLY BELOVED SON OF W. & J. DODDS OF HULL R.I.P.”.
First name:
WALTER ERNEST
Regiment:
Military Number:
41036
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
16/09/1917
Place died:
Hospital Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
36
