Name
Frederick Jameson Dodd
09 Mar 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/04/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2428
London Regiment
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WELWYN CEMETERY, HERTFORDSHIRE
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Welwyn Village Memorial, Welwyn,
St Mary the Virgin Roll of Honour, Welwyn,
Not on the Knebworth memorials
Pre War
Frederick Jameson Dodd was born on 9 March 1896 in Ilchester, Somerset to John Jameson Dodd and his wife Agnes (nee Williams) and baptised at Ilchester on 3 May.
John was Headmaster of Ilchester Board School and soon after Frederick's birth, moved to Welwyn to become the Headmaster of Welwyn School.
Sadly in 1899 Agnes died and Frederick, his two brothers and one sister were looked after by their widowed Aunt Marian until his father remarried in 1901 to Amelia Blow. On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at the Boys School, Welwyn. In late 1911 he became a Temporary Boy Clerk with the Post Office and in Aug 1913 he became Assistant Clerk (Abstractor) still with the Post Office.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted on 29 August 1914 as private 2428 with 15th Battalion Prince of Wales Own (Civil Service Rifles) as a Territorial Soldier.
He volunteered for Overseas Service on 17 Nov 1914 but remained in England until 18 Aug 1915 when he joined the Expeditionary Force in France. He fought at the Battle of Loos where he helped capture German trenches. However he became ill with tuberculosis and was admitted to Southwark Military Hospital in March 1916, where his condition was considered so poor that he was permanently discharged on 15 April 1916 as being unfit for further service and he later died on 20 April 1916 from heart failure.
Additional Information
His funeral took place on 24 April 1916 and he was buried with his mother in Welwyn cemetery. his part of the inscription reads:
also of
FREDERICK JAMESON DODD (LATE CIVIL SERVICE RIFLES) THE BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE (John Jameson Dodd)
WHO FELL ASLEEP APRIL 20TH 1916, AGED 20.
"FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH."
FREDERICK JAMESON DODD (LATE CIVIL SERVICE RIFLES) THE BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE (John Jameson Dodd)
WHO FELL ASLEEP APRIL 20TH 1916, AGED 20.
"FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH."
His father received a war gratuity of £7 and pay owing of £8 6s 9d.
His elder brother John served as a Captain in the 7th Corps Cyclist Battalion and survived the war.
N.B. His mother died of tuberculosis of the lungs.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Paul Jiggens, Welwyn and District History Society - www.welwynww1.co.uk, Brenda Palmer
