Bertie DODGEON

Main CPGW Record

Surname: DODGEON

Forename(s): Bertie

Place of Birth: Barnoldswick, Yorkshire

Service No: S/11071

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)

Battalion / Unit: 1st Battalion

Division: 7th (Meerut) Indian Division

Age: ---

Date of Death: 1916-04-23

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: XXII. C. 12.

CWGC Cemetery: AMARA WAR CEMETERY

CWGC Memorial: ---

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Bertie Dodgeon (Dodgson) was the son of Emma Dodgson (born Gargrave, Yorkshire, c. 1878), the daughter of William and Mary Dodgson, née Broughton.

1901 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 10, Rowley Street - Bertie Dodgson, aged 6 years, born Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, grandson of Mary Bailey. [Bertie's mother, Emma Dodgson, was also living there.]

1911 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 15, Ardwick Street - Bertie Dodgson, aged 16 years, born Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, son of Emma and [stepson of] Alfred Hargreaves. [Emma had married Alfred in 1906.]

Bertie was married to Florence Powell in 1914.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Bertie Dodgeon, S/11071, Sea. Highrs.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Bertie Dodgeon, S/11071, 1/Bn Seaforth Highlanders.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Bertie Dodgeon, S/11071, 1/Seaforth Highlanders. Date and Place of Death: 23.4.16. Persian Gulf. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Florence. £5 7s. 9d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: Private Bertie Dodgeon, alias Dodgson, S/11071, Seaforth Highlanders. Date and cause of death: 23.4.16. Wounds. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Florence Dodgson, born 4.11.86. Address: 27, Railway View, Brierfield, Burnley, Lancashire. Children: Fred Broughton [Dodgson], born 25.6.14. Edgar Powell, born 3.2.12.

In 1921 Florence and her sons, Edgar Powell and Fred Broughton Dodgson were boarding with Helen Illston at Woodnook Cottage, Brierfield, Nr Burnley. In 1939 Florence and her son, Fred, were living at 7, Montrose Street, Brierfield.

On 4 February 1916, because of heavy casualties, the 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, was amalgamated with the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch to form the Highland Battalion. On 12 July 1916, both battalions resumed their former identity.

Bertie is commemorated on the Brierfield War Memorial and in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.

A short biography of Bertie is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).

Photograph: ‘Burnley Express’ (3 May 1916).

Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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