Name
Thomas Dickinson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/04/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235587
Leicestershire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 50 to 51.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Abbots Langley Village Memorial, St. Lawrence Church Memorial, Abbots Langley, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Biography
Thomas Dickinson was born in the summer of 1895 at Abbots Langley. He was one of four children (two sons and two daughters) born to Edward and Louisa Dickinson. Edward was a Garden and Farm Labourer, and in 1901 the family lived at Troley Bottom. By the time of the 1911 Census Thomas was living with the family at 113 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley, and he was working as a Farm Boy.
He enlisted at Hertford early in the War, and was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in December 1914, and shown serving with the Herts Territorials. He was regularly listed in the Roll of Honour each month throughout the War, but it was not until January 1917 that his record was updated to reflect him serving with the 1st Hertfordshire’s. It was likely that he joined the 1st Hertfordshire’s much earlier in the War. The Parish Magazine reported that Thomas had been wounded, in the December 1916 edition, and later, in November 1917, he was listed “sick or wounded”.
Thomas Dickinson was killed in action on 29th April 1918, having been attached to the 8th Leicester battalion in the Ypres Sector. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine, in June 1918 reported
“Thomas Dickinson, of the Herts Regiment, was killed in action on April 29th, being at the time attached to the Leicester Regiment. He joined up at the outbreak of war, and has been in France for the greater part of the time, and has been wounded several times. At one time in hospital he gave blood to save the life of a fellow patient, and suffered severely in consequence. He was a most happy, cheerful, lovable person, and all will join with his mother and father in mourning his loss”.
Thomas Dickinson was commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, near Passchendaele, Belgium, and also on the Abbots Langley War Memorial.
Additional Information
Formerly 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org, Jonty Wild
