Name
Philip Walter Rudolph Doll
28/03/1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/10/1914
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
1st/8th Bn. (Machine Gun Officer)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 4 and 6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres, Belgium, to the fallen.
UK & Other Memorials
St Thomas' Mission Hall, Green Tye, St Thomas' Church Memorial, Perry Green, Much Hadham Village Memorial, St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham, Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham Congregational Church Memorial, Hadham Cross, Charterhouse School MCC Member
Pre War
Born on 28 May 1890 in 74 Gower Street, London and baptised on 12 Aug 1890 in St George, Bloomsbury son of Charles Fitzroy Doll, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., J.P., (London and Hertford) and Emily Frances Doll (nee Tyler) also of Hadham Towers, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Educated at Charterhouse School (1891-1907) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Winner of Lord Roberts' Gold Cup at Aldershot in 1914, with his guns.
He was a keen cricketer and is named on the Memorial of Members at Lords cricket ground. He joined the Kings Liverpool Regiment in 1909.
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant King’s Liverpool Regiment on 6 Nov 1909 and promoted to Lieutenant on 10 Apr 1912 and was posted to France on 13th August 1914.
Wartime Service
He was killed in action during the first Battle of Ypres.
Kings Liverpool War Diary Extract: (The Battle of Gheluvelt) 30th October 1914- Last night at Billets at Nord Westhoek. "About 3.30 heard that Germans had broken through the line. 31st October -Received orders to move down to S.W. comer of Polygon Wood. Received orders that we were to counter attack with Worcesters if the 1st Brigade were driven from the Gheluveldt Ridge. Company officers went out to reconnoitre ground over which we had to advance. Lt Doll did not come back. Sent search parties out after him but could find no trace of him." (His body was later found by men of the 54th Battery, R.F.A.)
Additional Information
His effects of a £40, War Gratuity went to his father Charles Fitzroy Doll.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum)
