OFFICIALLY DEAD - Liverpool Echo 9/7/1915

RETURN OF GUARDSMAN IN WHOM THE KING WAS INTERESTED

Corpl. Frank Dodd, of the Scots Guards, and a policeman in Liverpool, is at present in the King George Hospital, London, having returned from Germany with the exchanged prisoners. He has since been reading the official notices of his demise, and the sympathetic messages to his wife from Their Majesties.

As a matter of fact he was captured by the Germans on October 25th , and, although he wrote several times to his wife and relations, the communications were not delivered. On the contrary, on December 17th the wife received an official communication from the office in charge of records notifying the death of Frank Dodd, Scots Guards, which occurred abroad on the 26th October 1914, and expressing the sympathy and regret of the Army Council. The cause of death was given as killed in action. This was followed by the message, "The King commands me to assure you of the true sympathy of His Majesty and the Queen in your sorrow - (Signed) Kitchener."

On the 24th April, Mrs Dodd, who had by that time heard from the husband and did not know if she were officially a wife or a widow, received a further communication from the Scots Guard' Record Office that her husband had died from wounds, "somewhere in Germany."