Post by northophall on Feb 12, 2018 22:20:18 GMT
Hi, as part of a community group (Northop Hall, a small village in Flintshire North Wales) we have received Heritage Lottery funding to re-landscape our village war memorial site (now completed) and to research the 11 servicemen who died in WW1, many of the 66 villagers to enlist joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The findings of our research is to be collated into a book and distributed to every household in the village - free of charge. I have been trying to find out why Joseph Edward Dodd born in the village on 22/1/1898 enlisted into the 16th Lancers at the Curragh. From his service record he served for 2 years 8 months and was killed approx 25 Feb 1917 in France which would indicate that he enlisted June/July 1914 (after the Curragh Incident but just before the start of WW1). At the time he enlisted he was 17 and a half years old. Would he of enlisted as a boy soldier or lied about his age? Are there any records or photos that exist from that time that I could use? Thanks