BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM DICK (1860-1940) & SARAH AMELIA DICK, OF 52 TRINITY STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 6, WARNE STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS A WATER INSPECTOR FOR THE COUNCIL FOR 26 YEARS.
HIS WIFE, LILIAN WILLIAMS (BORN 31/3/1884), LIVED AT 2 CRYSTAL TERRACE, SUTTON STREET, HULL, 61, LIDDELL STREET, HULL, AND 6, WARNE STREET, SUTTON STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, JOHN WILLIAM, DOROTHY MAY AND LILIAN. AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 20/6 SHILLINGS.
HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A PAWN BROKER MANAGER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT ENGLAND FOR THE DARDENELLES, IN JULY 1915. WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 9TH AUGUST, 1915, AGED 31. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS BROTHER, L/CPL, HAROLD DICK , 9061 1ST EYR, LIVED AT 52 TRINITY STREET, HULL STREET, AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 1ST JULY 1916, AGED 26. HIS OTHER BROTHER, SERGEANT, WALTER DICK, 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WAS WOUNDED IN THE WAR.
