Frederick Jameson Dodd
Frederick Jameson was born in Ilchester, Somerset in 1896, third son of John Jameson Dodd and his wife Agnes. John Jameson was Headmaster of Ilchester Board School and shortly after Frederick’s birth took up the position of Headmaster of Welwyn School. Not long after arriving in Welwyn, in 1899 Agnes died. John Jameson was helped by his widowed sister, Marian, in raising his family of three sons and a daughter.
In 1901 John Jameson remarried, to Welwyn born Amelia Blow.
Frederick Jameson enlisted on the 29th August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of war. He remained in England until August the following year when he joined the Expeditionary Force in France. He fought at the Battle of Loos, being in reserves which took over captured German Trenches.
However by March 1916 he had been admitted to Southwark Military Hospital suffering from TB. The Medical Report of the 15th March into his disability notes in some detail his poor condition and in concluding that he be permanently discharged as being unfit for further service states that his condition was ‘not so caused but aggravated by active service’
However just 5 days later Frederick died of heart failure.
Two days later his body was bought back to Welwyn, having been given a military escort from the hospital to King’s Cross Station.
His funeral took place on the 24th March 1916 and he was buried with his mother in Welwyn Cemetery. Many people are reported to have attended the funeral, conducted by the Rev. Wathen and Rev. Lydekker.
A special hymn ‘How bright these glorious spirits shine’ was composed for the occasion by Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty of Wendover Lodge, who within a few months would be burying his own son, Major Charles Scott-Gatty, just a few yards away.
Frederick Jameson had an elder brother John, who served as a Captain in the
7th Corps Cyclist Battalion and survived the war
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