BORN THWING, BRIDLINGTON 1894. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE DOSDALE (1871-1939) & MARY ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1872-1955), OF 16 SELBY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4 COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, CALLED ERNEST. HIS FATHER WAS A CARTER. HE WORKED IN A BUTCHER’S SHOP. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE EAST RIDING CAVALRY. DIED AT SEA, ON THE SHIP “ACARDIAN”, 15/04/1917, AGED 23. HE IS BURIED IN GREECE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S WALKER STREET MEMORIAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER.
PRIVATES, GROVES, MOORE, GARSIDE & PICKERING FROM HULL.DIED ON THE SAME DAY.
On 15th April 1917, HMT Arcadian was sunk off Melos in the Aegean Sea. Nineteen men of the draft of 43 ERY men destined to join the 1/1st ERY in Palestine were among those drowned. The regiment’s war diary notes 2nd Lt. (Richard Duncan) Ullyott and 13 men arriving on May 9th, with 19 reported drowned. In addition, Robert Bell was a former ERY man, then attached to the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and Harry Matthews may also have been with the ERY, though the evidence is ambiguous. So the total losses for the regiment on this occasion may have been 21. Though there were a couple of experienced NCOs in this group, the majority were young recruits.
