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.
HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A PAWN BROKER MANAGER. HE WAS HUSBAND OF LILLIAN, AT 2 CRYSTAL TERRACE, SUTTON STREET, HULL AND THIS ADDRESS. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. 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.
