LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Cyril Ingram DODSON
Service No: 11266
Born: Cardiff, Wales, 26 January 1908
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 July 1940 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School, Benalla VIC
Died: Illness, Wangaratta VIC, 14 May 1943, Aged 35 Years
Buried: Benalla War Cemetery VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Archibald Ingram Dodson and Annie Mary Dodson; husband of Veronica Ursula Dodson, of East St. Kilda
Roll of Honour: St Kilda VIC
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 14 May 1943, Sergeant Dodson, a Nursing Orderly, was seriously ill at Wangaratta Base Hospital, Victoria, following an appendectomy and it was necessary to perform a second operation on the same day from which he did not recover.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/10/63