Frederic Hova Wolley Dod

Chanak Consular Cemetery, Turkey

Frederic (Hova) Wolley Dod

Lieutenant.  

1st Garrison Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Died of typhoid in Turkey 24 July 1919. Age 47

Buried in Chanak Consular Cemetery, Turkey. (including Gallipoli) I. A. 6.

Born in Eton, Buckinghamshire in 1872 (baptised 25th March 1872).

Fourth son of the Rev. Charles and Mrs Frances Lucy Wolley Dod of Edge, Malpas.

Frederic emigrated to Canada in 1893, taking his substantial collection of butterflies and moths with him, and was recognised there as an expert in the field of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

He was well published and had various specimens named after him.

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Frederic Wolley-Dod came back from Canada to enlist despite age.

He joined up in 1917 and was transferred to a Labour Company in Macedonia where he hoped to continue his passion for lepidoptera.

Died of enteric on way home from Salonika.

Frederic is also commemorated on the memorial at The Abbey Church of St Mary, Nuneaton.

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Will of Frederic Hova Wolley Dod
DOD Frederic Hova Wolley of Midnapore Alberta Canada second-lieutenant Yorkshire Light Infantry died 24 July 1919 at the stationary hospital Chanak army of the Black Sea Administration (with Will limited) London 2 April to Francis Richard Clarke and Gordon Lloyd Trevor Kenyon solicitors’ attorneys of Herbert Smith and Norman Williams. Effects £951 1s. 1d.

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"I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD"