Name
Alfred John Charles Dodson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/08/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
48998
RIFLE BRIGADE
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE
9.C.7
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Ashwell memorials
Pre War
Born Knapwell, Cambs. Resident Baldock. Enlisted Bedford. Brother of Ferdinand Dodson who also died.
Wartime Service
An article appeared in the Hertfordshire Express on 21st of September 1918 reporting that his parents had been officially informed that Alfred had been killed in action on 10th of August. The article describes how the Rev. A. J. Billings informed them that he "with his comrades, was following up the retreating enemy, and they were entrapped by a party of Germans in hiding, and were fired on at short range by machine guns."
Additional Information
Son of John and Eliza Ann Dodson, of Cold Harbour, nr. Ashwell, Herts. Alfred's brother Ferdinand died from wounds received in action on 28th September 1915.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson