Dymock, William Duncan

BORN HULL 10/07/1891. SON OF WILLIAM DYMOCK (1862-1939) & SARAH JANE PARKER (1872-1947) , OF 70 CAMPBELL STREET, 46 KINGS BENCH STREET AND WELBECK STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. EDUCATED AT DAY STREET BOARD SCHOOL. EMPLOYED AS A TANNERS CLERK, BY MESSRS HOLMES & CO, CAMPBELL STREET. ENLISTED IN HULL ON 24/04/1915, AGED 23. JOINED THE 10TH EYR (HULL COMMERCIALS). DESCRIBED IN HIS ARMY RECORDS, AS 5 FOOT 10 INCHES TALL, 140 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST. HE MARRIED IN HULL, ON 10/07/1915. HIS WIFE EMILY BLACKBURN, LIVED AT 9 SCARBOROUGH TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET, AND THIS ADDRESS. HE SERVED IN EGYPT FROM NOVEMBER 1915 AND IN FRANCE FROM MARCH 1916. RECEIVED A BULLET WOUND TO HIS THIGH, ON 24TH JUNE 1916, AND INVALIDED HOME. HE WAS SENT TO RUGELEY TRAINING CAMP ON RECOVERY. SUBSEQUENTLY TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRES IN FRANCE. PROMOTED TO ACTING CORPORAL. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, NEAR YPRES, ON 4TH OCTOBER 1917, AGED 26. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, WROTE, “HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST OF A SPLENDID SET OF NCO’S. HE DIED A TRUE SOLDIER, LEADING HIS COMRADES IN THE ATTACK. HE WAS RESPECTED BY HIS OFFICERS AND COMRADES IN THE RANKS, AND I MYSELF FEEL HIS LOSS KEENLY.” HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SENT TO HIS WIDOW EMILY. THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. HE LEFT THREE BROTHERS, ALEXANDER, GEORGE AND STANLEY DYMOCK, AND FIVE SISTERS, ELIZABETH, LAVINIA, CAROLINE, SARAH AND SONIA, AT 46 KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.. HIS NAME WAS ALSO RECORDED ON THE ST MATHEWS CHURCH MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD.
HIS SERVICE DETAILS ARE LISTED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 3.