Clare Herbert Dodwell

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
207067
Unit at enlistment: 
97th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Wounded: 
Yes
Date of death: 
August 31st, 1918
Cemetery: 
Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - III.B.4.
Commemorated at: 
Wellington Street Methodist Church, B.C.I. High School Memorial Plaque
Birth country: 
U.S.A.
Birth county: 
St. Louis
Birth city: 
St. Louis, Missiouri
Address at enlistment: 
98 Marlborough Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
98 Marlborough Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Apprentice
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
18

Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station, (Gunshot Wound Abdomen).

BX September 6, 1918

Clare Herbert Dodwell Reported Wounded

Private Clare Herbert Dodwell has been wounded. His mother, Mrs. Mary Dodwell received a cable message on Thursday informing her that Clare was in the 7th Clearing Station suffering from a gunshot wound in the abdomen. He was hit on August 27 after serving for nearly three years with the Princess Pats.
        
BX September 10, 1918

Private Clare Herbert Dodwell Died of Wounds

To another mother in Brantford has come the sorrowful but proud news that her son has given his life in the great cause. Mrs. Mary Dodwell, 98 Marlboro Street, was added today to the great list of the world’s sorrowing mothers, when she learned that her brave young son, Pte. Clare Herbert Dodwell had died of wounds in the 7th Casualty Clearing Station, on August 31. 

Just four days before he was wounded, and the news of his death came as a quick sequel to the first heartbreak. Clare was only a lad of 18 when he enlisted three years ago. He went from his school desk into the army ranks. It was with the 97th American Battalion that left Toronto that he crossed the Atlantic, but he had become a member of the Princess Pats before he entered the trenches. Besides his widowed mother, this soldier of tender years, who will be mourned by many, many friends in the city, leaves two brothers, Mr. Roy Dodwell is at the present time in the West, as he is in poor health, and Mr. Norman Dodwell is with the railroad at Black Rock.