Dodge, Raymond (Lofty)

A soldier who served in the British Sixth Division. At the beginning of May 1948, Raymond, along with three other soldiers from his unit, joined the Ninth Battalion of the Negev-Palmach Brigade on May 3, 1948. The unit in which Lufty served in a general attack on the Egyptian forces in the Ashdod area A very difficult battle took place, and our forces were wounded and injured, and before the first light, the force was forced to retreat about five kilometers along the dunes, carrying the wounded, but was forced to leave the spaces behind. Among those killed was Raymond, who was killed by gunfire in the short term. He left behind a brother in Australia. The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown.