BORN COTTINGHAM 1891. SECOND SON OF EDWARD & LUCY DICKINSON OF GEORGE STREET, COTTINGHAM (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A JOINER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER. EMPLOYED AS A BRICKLAYER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/06/1917, AGED 26. COMMEMORATED AO THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, AT YPRES, BELGIUM.
HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON THE ON THE COTTINGHAM WAR MEMORIAL. HIS ELDER BROTHER, HENRY SERVED IN THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT DURING THE WAR. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, WILFRED DICKINSON, SERVED IN THE YORK AND LANCS REGIMENT.
First name:
ARTHUR
Military Number:
44776
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
23/06/1917
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
26
