Dodges Who Fought For Their Country
World War I I - Canada

"Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it. They suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died."
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Reviers Brookwood Military Cemetery Runnymede Memorial Adegem Canadian War Cemetery
British and American Poetry of World War I
Lineage - Unknown. If you can help us with ancestry on this person we would ppareciate it very much.

Fletcher Earl Dodge Private-Service Number: B/144672 Killed in the Battle of the Rhine on March 24, 1945;
20 Army: 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C. Canadian
GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, The Netherlands; Grave Reference: XXII. B. 9.
Location:Groesbeek is located 10 km south east of the town of Nijmegen and close to the German frontier. The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery is 3 km north of the village and 1500 metres east of the main road to Nijmegen. On leaving the A73 motorway at the junction Overasselt Mook Groesbeek follow directions to Mook. Follow direction signs towards Mook War cemetery. After passing Mook War cemetery continue to the village of Groesbeek to a set of traffic lights. Turn left at the lights onto Dorpstraat passing through Groesbeek. The road name then changes to Molenweg. A Commonwealth War Graves Commission direction sign indicates the right hand turning from Molenweg onto the Zeven Heuvelenweg. The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery is located on the right hand side, about 1 km after entering this road.
On the Memorial in the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek are inscribed the following words: Pro amicis mortui amicis vivimus, We live in the hearts of friends for whom we died.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Commemorated on Page 509 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Fletcher was the son of William P. Dodge, and of Sadie E. Dodge, of Toronto, Ontario. Fletcher was survived by siblings: William Dodge of Coburg; Mrs. Frank McKendry of Trenton; Mrs. Mae Turbencag of Toronto, and Miss Connie Dodge of Toronto: Williwm, the father was deceased. Mother had married again to a surname WILTON from Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me. Family tree on this family goes back to a Thomas Dodge 1811 born in Cornwall, England
Lineage - Unknown. If you can help us with ancestry on this person we would appareciate it very much.

Gilbert Le Roy Dodge, Rifleman Military Service Number 30960; Regina Rifle Regiment, R.C.I.C. Canadian
Gilbert died June 9, 1944, aged 23. and is buried at II. G. 12. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS, Calvados, France; Grave Reference: II. G. 12.
Location: Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery. There are a total of 2048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
Commemorated on Page 292 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Gilbert was the son of J. W. Le Roy Dodge and Jessie Dodge, of Edmonton, Alberta; husband of Georgina Thelma Dodge, of Edmonton.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Lineage - John Dodge of Middle Chinnock, Somerset, England through Richard

James Harper Dodge Nationality: Canadian;
Rank: Flying Officer; Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force; Service number: J/21046; Division: 426 Sqdn.
James died January 28, 1944. He was 20 years old.
He is buried at RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey,United Kingdom, panel 245
Location:During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometres by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen.
Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, "Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott.
James was the son of James Freeman Dodge and Edith Catherne McKinnon, of Sanich, British Columbia, Canada.
Commemorated on Page 292 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Lineage - Unknown. If you can help us with ancestry on this person we would ppareciate it very much.

Thomas Raymond Dodge, Lance Corporal; Service Number: M/20689; Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, 1 div>. Ammunition Coy.
Thomas died October 30, 1942 and is buried at 33. F. 5. BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey,United Kingdom ; Grave Reference: 33. F. 5
Location:Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
Commemorated on Page 69 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Lineage - Unknown. If you can help us with ancestry on this person we would ppareciate it very much. Listed as Canadian Irish in the Canadian Census records and on Lloyd's death certificate.

Lloyd Eldon Dodge ; Nationality: Canadian;
Rank: Sergeant; Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force. 405 Sqdn.; Service No: R/51644
Lloyd died October 22, 1941. He was the son of William Arthur Dodge and Dorothy Emily Hall. This family is in our on-line mystery file.

Lloyd is buried at RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey,United Kingdom, Grave Reference: Panel 61.
Location:During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometres by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen.
Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, "Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott.
aCommemorated on Page 28 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.