BORN HULL 28/10/1886. SON OF JOHN DODDS (1864- )AND EMILY “EMMIE” BURCROFT (1866-1937), OF 5, SOUTH PARADE. BROTHER OF EMILY JANE DODDS.
HE MARRIED MARY JANE WOOLENS (1888-1944), AT HULL, ON 21/06/1909. THEY AND THEIR DAUGHTER, ELSIE, LIVED AT 1, ASH GROVE, DE LA POLE AVENUE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 06/04/1915. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (4TH HULL PALS), IN EGYPT. TRANSFERRED TO FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. HE WAS THE COMPANY’S LEWIS GUNNER. REPORTED MISSING, THEN KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 30. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT THE SOMME.
MRS CHADWICK OF 5, CLOVELLY AVENUE, DE LA POLE AVENUE, HULL, REQUESTED INFORMATION ABOUT HIM, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL 22/09/1919.
HIS NAME WAS ALSO RECORDED ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2.
