Name
Oscar Victor Dicker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
57027
Royal Air Force
No 2 Stores Depot
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Oscar Dicker was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Abbots Langley in Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919. He was initially identified from the Absent Voter Records and was not recorded elsewhere in the Abbots Langley Parish records. In the Absent Voter Records Oscar was listed serving with the Royal Air Force at No 2 Stores Depot at Regents Park in London, and his address was given at Bedmond.
Oscar was born in the autumn of 1890 at Islington. He was one of six children born to Edward and Laura Dicker. In the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at 28 Sylvester Road, Walthamstow. In both Census Edward was listed working as a Compositor, and in 1911 Oscar was employed as a Junior Clerk.
In the autumn of 1915 Oscar married Ellen Forrester at West Ham. It is not known when Oscar enlisted however when he completed his military service he returned to Bedmond, and remained in the area after the War. In June 1920 Oscar and Ellen’s first daughter was born and was christened at Kings Langley.
It is not known if Oscar was related to Horace Dicker who was recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour between May 1916 and January 1917, and shown serving with the Army Service Corps. No other records have been traced for Horace, and his association with the village is unknown. The two men both lived in the Abbots Langley, but beyond that and sharing the same name no connection has been identified between these two men.
Oscar Dicker survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
