World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
Generally showing where they are commemorated, when they died and some basic facts about each person. There are gaps, however, so if you can fill in any missing details do please contact us.
Robert John Joseph Dickinson
Forename(s):
Robert John Joseph
Surname:
Dickinson
Initial(s):
R J J
Service Number:
35385
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 26th (Service) Battalion (3rd Tyneside Irish)
Died:
26/05/1918
Aged:
26
Buried:
Etaples Military Cemetery
Service History:
Enlisted at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Formerly 4612, Durham Light Infantry.
The 26th (Service) Battalion (3rd Tyneside Irish) was one of those battalions disbanded as a result of the Expeditionary Force's reorganisation in February 1918. For Dickinson still to be listed in the following May as attached to that unit suggests he'd been hospitalised for some time.
His death certificate lists him as dying of 'disease' but it's unclear as to whether this was a consequence of him having been wounded earlier, or pneumonia, influenza or one of the many other diseases men were exposed to living in trench conditions.
(Source: 'The Fallen of Embleton 1914-1919'; Written & researched by Terry Howells, Mary Kibble, & Monica Cornall; pp. 58-59).
Background:
Born in 1892, at Embleton, Northumberland, the only child of William Hope Dickinson (b. at Newcastle upon Tyne; an Ordnance Fitter), by his wife, Margaret Dickinson (née Carr; b. 1867, at Christon Bank, near Embleton; a Dressmaker).
Educated at Embleton School where he appears to have had a somewhat unruly disciplinary record! He left school when he was 14, to become an Apprentice Joiner.
(Source: 'The Fallen of Embleton 1914-1919'; Written & researched by Terry Howells, Mary Kibble, & Monica Cornall; pp. 58-59).
Local Memorial:
Embleton, Church of England School Memorial Plaque