Name
Reginald Jack Dickinson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
7th Royal Fusiliers
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Reginald Dickinson was born in the spring of 1895 at Kings Langley and christened at World’s End, Kensington and Chelsea on 30th June of the same year. His father, Arthur Dickinson, had died by the time of the 1901 Census leaving his wife, Margaret Dickinson, to bring up Reginald and his sister Alice.
In the 1901 Census the family lived at Caxton’s Cottage, Worth, East Grinstead, Kent, where Margaret was employed by a retired Architect, Philip Webb, as a Servant Housekeeper. Ten years later, in the 1911 Census Margaret was still in the employ of Philip Webb, and living at “Caxton’s”, Pound Hill, Crawley with her son and daughter.
Reginald was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in June 1915, and was listed serving with the Royal Naval Reserve. At some point between June 1915 and January 1918 Reginald transferred to the Royal West Kent’s and had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His link to Abbots Langley at this point has not been confirmed, and why he would have been included each month in the Parish Roll of Honour has also not been identified. However Reginald was listed in the Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 Absent Voter Records serving as a Lieutenant with the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and his address was given at 20 Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley.
Additional Information
Formerly Royal West Kent Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
