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Dodds, W.M., Capt., 1918

Photo Brian Chandler

In Newcastle (St.Andrew’s and Jesmond) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

In loving memory of
William Henry Dodds
Colonel 1st Newcastle R.E. Vols.
who died at Benwell Hill
May 22nd 1907
aged 55 years.
And of Jane, his wife
who died April 11th 1931
in her 75th year.

The side panel reads:
In loving memory
of
his second son
Walter Milbourne
Dodds
Capt. 23rd Batt., N.F.
who died of wounds
14th October 1918
a prisoner of war
at Posen, Germany
aged 33 years.

Walter Milbourne Dodds is remembered in Newcastle on NUT147 and in Benwell on B86.19


The CWGC entry for Captain Dodds

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk