Second Lieutenant Lewis George Dickinson

Second Lieutenant Lewis George Dickinson

Army Number: n/a (formerly 272 Company Quartermaster Sergeant)

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn At Sheffield, Yorkshire and lived at Matlock, Derbyshire. Son of Frederick George and Ann Jemima Dickinson of Beechwood, Matlock. He was a railway clerk prior to enlisting. He went to France 25th February 1915 and was commissioned 12th March 1915. He was killed in action, 30th September 1915, aged 36, during the explosion of a German mine under Trench 29, and corner of Angle Trench, at Spoilbank, near Ouderdom, Belgium.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, 1914-1918
Second Lieutenant Lewis George Dickinson article
Derbyshire Courier 20th March 1915.

Buried: Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row G. Grave 18.

Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium.

Second Lieutenant Lewis George Dickinson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Matlock War Memorial, Matlock, Derbyshire.