Name
Colin C Dyble
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
436736
Canadian Infantry
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIMY MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Born on 14th November 1888 in Hampstead, London, Colin Clarke Dyble was the only son of Henry and Alice (née Bunting) Dyble. Henry, a police constable, and Alice were married in Norfolk in the Docking registration district in the third quarter of 1884. The couple also had three daughters, two older and one younger than Colin.
Alice died in 1893 (recorded in Q4 1893 in the Watford registration district) and in 1895 Henry married Alice Sarah Ford in Anmer, Norfolk. The marriage was registered in the Forehoe district in the first quarter of 1895.
In 1901, when Colin was 12, the family of four children were living at 1, Bournehall Road in Bushey.
By 1911, his father, now 59 and retired from the police force, was the beer house keeper of The Stag in Merry Hill Road, Bushey. His three daughters, Laura (aged 25), Constance (aged 24) and Frances (aged 19) were also living there. The three girls had been baptised together on 14th Aug 1892 in Anmer, Norfolk and were recorded on the register as living in London at that time.
Colin was no longer at home with his parents and three sisters in 1911 because he had emigrated to Canada the previous year. He sailed to Montreal and his shipping papers give his occupation as a plumber’s mate but states that he was going to work on a farm.
Note: The surname on the 1911 Census is incorrectly transcribed as Diglele in the Ancestry database.
Wartime Service
When war was declared, Colin enlisted on 3rd February 1915 in Edmonton, Canada, as Private 436736 in the 51st Battalion of the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force. His attestation paper gives his trade as a Plumber & Fitter and next of kin as Henry Dyble at The Stag, Merry Hill Lane, Bushey.
He sailed for England on the SS Missauabie, leaving Halifax on 18th April 1916 and arriving in Liverpool on the 28the April. The Missauabie was later torpedoed on the 9th September 1918 by the German submarine U87 while 50 miles from Cobh, Ireland, with the loss of 45 lives.
Colin was promoted to Corporal in ‘A’ Company of the 51st Battalion on 1st January 1916 and the unit proceeded to service in France and Flanders on 8th June 1916. He was transferred to 7th Battalion on 8th June 1916 and was returned to Private on 9th June 1916. He was missing believed killed in action on 9th September 1916, aged 27.
He is remembered with honour on the Vimy Memorial in France and is also commemorated on the Bushey Memorial and at St James’ Parish Church in the Bushey village.
Additional Information
Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
