DODSON, 2/Lt Joseph Edward

✟ ≠ 27293 West Kents (Queens Own West Kent Regiment), 10 Bn (The Buffs).  K.I.A. 10/10/1918 and is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle D’Armentieres, Pas de Calais Nord. France.

Medal record indicates he also served in Palestine. He is also remembered on a Dover War memorial.  b1885 Sheffield, son of Edward and Selina Dodson. 1911C “The Gables” Hathersage Booths. The family originated from Darnall, Sheffield. He married Dorothy May Dodson of 7 Evelyn Court, Lansdown Terrace, Cheltenham. Joseph was late Balliol (Oxford), Liverpool, and Dover Colleges. brothers Joseph, Charles, Henry and James all studied at Oxford. (Joseph and Charles became School masters).