Captain Albert Light Moody Dickins

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He lived at Hill Rise, Private Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. Son of Arthur William and Amy Rosina Dickins, of “Southfields,” 13, Tavistock Drive, Mapperley Park, Nottingham. He was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire. Was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 2/7th Battalion Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 4th March 1915 and went to France 24th August 1915. He joined D Company 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, at Canal Bank, Ypres, Belgium, on 30th August 1915. He was promoted to Lieutenant 1st June 1916. He was awarded the Military Cross “Lieutenant Acting Captain 1/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion: London Gazette 27th October 1917, For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of a patrol. Four of the enemy were met, and two were killed, the others making off. On returning to our lines a party of about twenty were encountered, and he ordered his men to charge, with the result that one of the enemies was killed, two wounded, and the remainder driven off. Killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 21, on the first day of the German Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht (“Kaiser’s Battle”) whilst the battalion was in the line near Noreuil, north-east of Bapaume, France.

Commemorated : Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Captain Albert Light Moody Dickins is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
Repton School War Memorial, Repton, Derbyshire.
Nottingham University O.T.C. War Memorial, Nottingham.