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2nd Lt. Anthony James Innes "Doddy" Dodsworth
Royal Flying Corps 4 Squadron
from:Hertfordshire
Pte. Henry E. Dodsworth
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Byker
Henry Dodsworth enlisted in October 1914
Cpl. Walter John Joseph Dodsworth
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Robert Doe
British Army 7th Btn. West Surrey Regiment (Queens)
from:Streatham, London
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Robert Doe was my Great Great Great Uncle. He served in the Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment with 3 of his brothers. He was the only one to not survive the war. A 4th brother also served in the Royal Engineers.
Sgt. Albert Edward Victor Doggett DCM.
British Army 58th Brigade, D Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Sipson, Middlesex
Albert Doggett joined the army on the 17th Nov 1913 age 16 years 3 months. He was promoted Bombardier 16 June 14. Later posted to 57 (H) battery andmobilised on 5 Aug 14 into 43 Bde RFA 1Div. He fought at Mons, Great Retreat, Marne and Aisne. He transferred to Ypres 16/19 Oct 14 and was wounded by German shell 4th Nov 14. Albert was evacuated to Norwich and treated at Norfolk Hospital, Norwich.
Albert was promoted Cpl on the 8th Jan 1915. (age 17years & 5 mths). Posted to A Bty, 81 Bde RFA 17 (Northern) Div. at Swanage. Promoted Sgt 7 May 15 (age 17y 10mths). 17 Div moved to Winchester in June 1915, and proceeded to France on the 13th of Jul 1915. 17th Div went into the Ypres sector and on the 5th of Aug 1915, were in action at Hooge. On 11th Aug 1915 A/81 Battery, including Sgt Doggett and a portion of the Ammunition Column withdrawn and posted to 118(H) Bde 1(Canadian) Div at Ploegstreet. from Sept to December 1915 they shelled German trenches and rear areas around Ploegstreet including Petite Douve Farm and Messines Town. On the 25th of Sep 1915 A/81 was renamed 460 Battery then on the 15th Dec 1915 460 Battery was renamed 461 Battery.
Albert spent Christmas 1915 in the line and as 461 Battery Sgt's Mess Sgt Doggett was to sing "Old Soldiers Never Die". On the 4th of Apr 1916 118(H) Bde moved North to the Ypres area and were engaged in shelling Hill 60 and St Eloi. On the 15th of July 1916 118(H) Bde broken up. 461 Battery (including Sgt Doggett) transferred to 58 Bde RFA 11 (Northern) Div who were freshly arrived from Egypt. The Battery was located at Dainville until the 4th of Sep 16 when they moved to Mash Valley for ops against Thiepval, Mouquet Farm, Schwaben Redoubt.
Sgt Doggett remained with D/58 till Feb 1919 fighting through the Battles of Messines, Third Ypres, and through to the Armistice just South East of Mons. He won a DCM on 7 Nov 1918 at Eth Wood. As a regular soldier he was posted to Cork in Feb 1919 and transferred to the reserve in Dec 1920. He died in 1990 aged 93.
2nd Lt. George Patrick Doggett
British Army 69th Trench Mortar Battery Royal Artillery
from:Cambridge
(d.4th Jul 1917)
George Doggett enlisted in 1914 and embarked with the Cambridge Territorials on 14th February 1915. He went to officer training in Bristol and joined the 7th West Ridings attached to the 10th West Ridings with duty in the 69th Trench Mortar Battery. He was wounded on 7th of June 1917 at Hill 60. He died of his wounds on 4th July 1917.
Charles Leonard Doherty
British Army 5th Battalion, C Company Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:St Helens, Lancashire
Charles joined the 18th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment in December 1915 when aged 16, but was brought back by his Father as he was under age. He later went to France with the Welsh Regiment (no 73148) and then joined Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 5th Battalion, C Company (80223). He was wounded in France by shrapnel and gas. He was sent to Tralee near Limmerick during the troubles, after he was wounded.
Pte. John Doherty
British Army 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment
from:Derry, Northern Ireland
(d.21st Jan 1916)
John Doherty was born in Derry, Co. Derry in Ireland in 1884. His parents were called Manasses and Sarah Doherty. Manasses was the brother of my great grandfather, Constantine, who was a successful shirt maker until his death in 1911. Manasses did not get involved in the shirt making business but was a typographer for the Derry Journal. John was also learning this trade before he enlisted.
According to family history, Manasses was not keen on the idea of John enlisting because Manasses was a staunch Nationalist and saw John's enlistment as essentially taking the side of the British in what would eventually prove to be a brutal conflict between the Irish and the British during - and a long time after - the First World War. However, John went anyway.
To my knowledge, John fought at the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Loos, which is where he died. Family legend has it that a piece of shrapnel hit him in the head and this is what killed him. What saddens me the most about John's story is not that he died in the war (although that is very sad) but his father's reaction upon hearing the news. Apparently, when he received the telegram informing him of his son's death, he tore it up, placed it in the fire and ordered the rest of the family never to speak of him again. Shortly after that, he passed away as well so it was left to John's mother, Sarah, to pick up John's belongings and sign all the paper work.
It is easy to say - but no less true because of this - that men like John showed extraordinary courage in signing up for, and fighting in, what has to be the bloodiest war in history. But I think John was a little more than the average because, despite his father's wishes, he still did what he believed to be right and that takes a form of courage all of its own.
Pte. Patrick Doherty
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Londonderry
(d.26th Oct 1916)
Rfmn. Thomas Doherty
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Newry, Co. Down
(d.30th Jul 1916)
Pte. Samuel James Doidge
British Army Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Cumberland
Samuel Doidge was in a local cricket club pre-war, and when he signed up in 1914, he was a part of a Pals Battalion and it turned out that his commanding officer was the head of the cricket club and said "Sam you're a good bowler" and made him throw grenades, instead of going over the top. He fought in 3 main battles before he was captured.
He was shipped off to a salt mine where the camp commandant recognised the local last name (that side of the family apparently came from that area of Germany before his family came to Britain), and they became friends and wrote to each other after WW1 ended. The commandant even came round to visit after WW2. He was never wounded. He was held in Giessen Pow camp.
Pte. James Doig
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Dumfries
James was captured on the 15th of October 1918 at Harlebeke. The Dumfries Standard reported, "Private James Doig, KOSB husband of Mrs Doig of Steeple Close, Kirkcudbright is reported as missing from 16th October. Private Doig who was a regular soldier and served in India with a territorial regiment is a native of Dunfries. He served in Egypt and Palestine, where he was wounded and was afterwards transferred to France in April. He had a brother killed at the Gallipoli landing. There are strong hopes that Private Doig is a prisoner." He was indeed a prisoner and was held in Stendal PoW camp.
Gnr. John Doig MM
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Angus Monifieth
Pte. William Doig
British Army 2nd Btn., A Coy. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Gilmeton, Edinburgh
William Doig served with 2nd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
Pte. John Dolan
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
(d.16th Aug 1917)
John Dolan was born in Jarrow and lived in Gateshead. He enlisted at Newcastle. He is remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial.
Pte. Peter Dolan
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Carrickboy, Co Longford
(d.29th Mar 1916)
Peter Dolan is buried in Bois-Carre Military Cemetery in France. He was my grandfather on my mother's side.
Sgt. T. Dolan
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh
(d.13th May 1918)
Serjeant Dolan was the Son of Patrick and Mary Dolan; husband of Helen O'Donnell Dolan, of 29, Albert St., Edinburgh. Born at Berwick.
He was 34 when he died and is buried in The Hague Roman Catholic Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Pte. George Edwin Dolbear
British Army 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment
from:Broadclyst, Devon
(d.9th May 1917)
Capt. Robert Dolbey
British Army RAMC
Captain Dolbey had been captured at La Bassee in October 1914, when he was in charge of a field hospital. Subsequently, he was imprisoned at Sennelager and Crefeld POW Camps.
Gnr. Herbert George "Bertie" Dolley
British Army 48th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire.
(d.25th Dec 1915)
Bertie Dolley married my maternal grandmother, Emma Cocks, at St Marys Church, Hertingfordbury on 15th April 1909. He was 21 and she 24.He was, I believe, at that time a police constable in Bishops Stortford. They lived at Coles Green.
He was among the first of the BEF to set foot in France in August 1914. Gunner Herbert Dolley 19963 was a member of 48th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. The photos of him at the time show him dressed as a cavalryman, when most of his comrades would have been dressed as infantry soldiers, perhaps his being groom to Captain Rupert B. Peters had something to do with that.
He was 29 years old and had four young children, the youngest, my mother just 14 months, when on Christmas Day 1915 he was killed by enemy shelling. It was reported he climbed out of the relative safety of a cellar during the barrage of German artillery shells, to waken two men who were sleeping in a barn. The barn took a direct hit and all three were killed. A letter was found amongst his belongings, which was sent to the addressee Mrs Leslie of Birch Green Schools, in it he thanked the children for the parcel he had safely received, and said how much he would treasure the card they had sent with it. It had brought back many pleasant memories of the happy hours spent with his school chums, many of whom, he knew had given their lives for the country. Both this letter and the one from Captain Peters which accompanied, it were later published in The Hertingfordbury War Record along with the notification of Herbert's death. Captain Peters spoke of how much he liked my Grandfather who was his groom and said how deeply saddened he was for my widowed Grandmother and her four little, now fatherless, children.
Gunner Dolley 19963 is buried in Louvencourt Military Cemetery Plot 1, Row C, Grave 24.
2nd Lt. Richard Dolman MM.
British Army North Somerset Yeomanry
from:Bathampton, Bath
My great grandfather Dick Dolman joined the Nth. Somerset Yeomanry around 1909. Equivalent to the TA they were called up in Aug 1914. I have a photo of him in Queen Square, Bath with his horse, waiting to entrain for Salisbury Plain. I'm sure he told me he had to supply the horse himself.
At some point he moved to the Som LI and having been a sergeant in 1914 ended the war as a 2nd Lieut. No one in the family knows for what deed his MM was awarded. He survived the war unscathed and died in may 1970 at the age of 92.
Pte Richard Dolman
British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.7th Aug 1916)
Pte. Stephen Dolman
British Army 1/6th Batallion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:38 Dale Street, St Pauls, Bristol
(d.19th Mar 1916)
Born 1897 St Agnes, Bristol Stephen Dolman was the son of William and Mary Christina (nee Allen) and worked in the printing department at St Anns Board Mills. He is buried at Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps.
I believe that Stephens's elder brother William also served with the Gloucestershire Regiment and was Killed in Action but paucity of records I cannot definitively prove this.
Lt. Christopher Patrick Domegan
Royal Air Force
from:Dublin
(d.10th October 1918)
Christopher Patrick Domegan was with both the Royal Air Force and the Irish Fusiliers. He was 29 when he was killed and is buried in the South-West part of Ardcath Graveyardc Co. Meath.
He was the son of Mrs. Catherine Domegan, of 29, North King St., Dublin
He was a military passenger on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes from a German submarine in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.
Lt. Christopher Patrick Domegan
Royal Air Force
from:Dublin
(d.10th Oct 1918)
Christopher Domegan was the son of Mrs Catherine Domegan of 29 North King St, Dublin. He previously served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He was 22 when he drowned in the Irish Sea whilst on the RMS Leinster. He is buried in the Ardcath Graveyard in Co. Meath, Ireland.
Lpcl. J. Donaghy
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
J Donaghy was wounded in October 1916
Skr1. Alfred Donald
Royal Navy HMS Derwent
from:Acton, London
(d.2nd May 1917)
Alfred Donald was born 1st March 1897 in Clapton, son of Adelaide Donald of Acton. He was an engine fitter before enlisting with the Royal Navy on 7th of June 1915. On 2 May 1917 he was aboard HMS Derwent, a River class destroyer, when she struck a contact mine laid by German submarine UC-26 in the English Channel off Le Havre, France. She sank with the loss of 58 officers and men including Alfred. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial and the War Memorial, St. Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Pte. Arthur Liloup Donald
British West Indies Regiment
from:Rosemary Castle, Jamaica
(d.9th April 1916)
Private Donald was the Son of Willoby Witcomb and Margaret James, of Port Henderson, Rosemary Castle, Jamaica. Born at St. Catherine.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Somerset Military Burial Grounds, Grave 19, in Bermuda
Pte. David Donald
British Army 1/10th Scottish King's Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Liverpool
David Donald enlisted in November 1915. He disembarked for France in April 1914. He served as a stretcher bearer and may have been gassed in July 1917 at the Battle of the Somme. He was taken prisoner at Epehy during the third Battle of Cambrai, and imprisoned at Munster being repatriated in January 1919.
He became a senior journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland, but never spoke or wrote a word about his wartime experiences.
Pte. George Moir Donald
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Dundee, Scotland
My grandfather George Moir Donald fought with the machine gun corps in WW1. He left his wife and two young sons on 11th december 1915 to go and fight for his country. He was badly injured by an exploding gun/shell which lodged in his chest, he was put in an iron lung machine and was not expected to live. His wife travelled abroad on her own, to bring him home.
He was very ill for a long time, but my grandmother nursed him back to health. George was discharged from the machine gun corps due to his wounds on 1st October 1918. He suffered all his life with his wounds and the metal that was still inside his chest. He worked as a jute mill overseer in Dundee and died in 1965, aged 74 years.
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