Photo: Brian Chandler
E.L. Dodds
West Yorkshire Regiment
28th December 1918, age 19.
Blessed are,
the pure in heart,
for they shall see God.
Ernest Leopold was born in South Shields in the second quarter of 1899; the son of Adelaide Haswell (nee Myers), formerly Dodds and the late Ernest H Dodds, 59 Darnell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
According to the 1911 Census he was living at 51 Tower Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson
The name of Ernest Leopold Dodds does not appear on a local war memorial.