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Pte. Robert Henry Dine
British Army 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Pelaw
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Robert Henry Dine joined the 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own) formerly 439 1st Training Reserve Battalion. He was born in Felling and lived in Pelaw. On the 1911 census, he is listed as Robert Henry Dine age 14, Labourer at Brick Works is with his father Frank Thomas Dine and step mother Charlotte Caroline Douglass Dine (nee Cutter) and family at 18 Heworth Avenue, Pelaw. He enlisted at Felling. He was the son of Frank Thomas and the late Annie Dine (nee Lisle) of 45 Heworth Avenue Pelaw.
Robert died aged 21 and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) Jarrow.
Rfm Charles George Dines
British Army 9th Btn Rifle Brigade
from:Shoreditch
(d.24th Mar 1918)
Dvr. Hubert Ernest "Bert" Dines
British Army Q Battery Royal Horse Artillery
from:Over, Cambs
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
My Great Uncle Hubert Dines was born in Over, Cambridgeshire on 5th January 1885 the second son of Robert and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dines. Bert emigrated on 9th April 1914 to Australia on board the S.S. Ballarat, departing from the Port of London. The ship would have called at Las Palmas, Capetown and Adelaide en route to Sydney.
No sooner had he arrived war was declared and he enlisted in Melbourne on 11th August 1914 for service as a driver in the Royal Horse Artillery(Imperial Reservists.)He sailed along with 54 other men who had also enlisted in Australia for the RHA on the first ANZAC convoy which gathered at Albany, Western Australia and set sail on1st November 1914. Bert was aboard HMAT Miltiades which started to disembark in Egypt on 3rd December 1914. At some point after this he was sent to Gallipoli with either the 15th Brigade 'B' 'L' or 'Y' Battery. He was subsequently wounded and sent back to England. Burt re-enlisted with the RHA at Bury St. Edmonds No. 39646 and was attached to 'Q' Battery. He was killed on the 23rd March 1918, almost exactly four years to the day he had left for Australia.
Lt. Thomas Fasti Dinesen VC.
Canadian Army Black Watch of Canada
from:Denmark
Thomas Fasti Dinesen was born in Rungsted, Denmark. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Dinesen attempted to enlist in the British, French, and United States armies, before being finally accepted by the Canadian Corps in 1917. He enlisted in the Black Watch of Canada regiment.
During the Battle of Amiens he was 26 years old a private in the 42nd (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force when, on 12 August 1918 at Parvillers, France, "he displayed conspicuous bravery when, five times in succession, he rushed forward alone against entrenched enemy troops and put hostile guns out of action. He was credited with killing 12 of the enemy using both bayonet and grenade, and with inspiring his comrades at a very critical stage of the action."
Lt/Col. Frederick James Dingwall
Canadian Expeditionary Forces Infantry
(d.13th Feb 1918)
Lt/Col Frederick Dingwall served with th Canadian Expeditionary Force Infantry. He died on 13th February1918 aged 40. He is commemorated in Memorial Reference 225 in the Winnipeg (Old Kildonan) Presbyterian Cemetery in Canada.
L/Cpl. Hugh Dingwall
4/5 Btn Black Watch
from:1 South Baffin Street, Dundee
(d.14 0ctober 1916)
Hugh was killed at Schwaben Redoubt and is buried in Connaught Cemetery. He was 19 years old when he died.
Pte. Michael Dinnegan
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
(d.19th June 1915)
Michael Dinnegan was killed on the Western Front.
May they all rest in peace
Capt. Campbell Hackworth Dinnen
British Army attd. (as Staff Capt.) West African Regiment, W.A. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
(d.4th March 1915)
Captain Dinnen was buried in the Douala Cemetery, Cameroon, Grave 13.
Pte. John William Dinnin
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Dinsdale
British Army 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire
from:Walsall
(d.8th January 1915)
Thomas Dinsdale My great grandfather was killed at Festubert 8th January 1915 aged 26. He left two children, Martha and Joseph, and a wife Sarah Jane Dinsdale. My Nan Martha was only 1 year old when he was killed and never saw her father although she passed down to my Mother that it had always been said that Thomas had been shot through the head whilst in the trenches at Festubert presumably by a German sniper but this is unsubstanciated.
I have traced his memorial to the missing at the Touret Memorial in France panel 21 to 22 which I hope to be visiting.
I believe that Frank Lawrence the brother of Lawrence of Arabia is also on these two panels. I know Thomas Dinsdale landed at Le Harve in August 1914 but very little else about their deployment. My Nan never had a photograph and sadly passed away some years ago.
Pte. Walter Dinsdale MM.
British Army 2nd Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Settle
Walter Dinsdale was my Grandfather. He joined up in 1914 and was in the First World War for its duration. He was stationed in France and was wounded twice. He, like many who fought in this war, did not really talk about his experiences. It was only later in his 80s that he spoke a little of what happened to him to my Uncle. He said that he did not think he would survive, and made light of being awarded the Military Medal.
He said it arrived through the post one day after the war had ended. He told my Mother, his daughter, that at the front you did not know if the soldiers were dead or not but could not do anything about it. He told my Uncle that he lost his close friend when he was blown up beside him. One interesting thing he did tell my Uncle was that when the announcement that the war had ended he along with other soldiers who were recovering from their wounds were on Saltburn Beach. There was no joyous reaction or celebration just complete silence.
After the war Grandad came back to Stainforth, near Settle and continued to be a farmer. He was a quiet dignified man who lived into his ninetieth year.
2nd.Lt. Francis Hugill Dinsley
British Army 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:Sharnbrook
(d.8th March 1919)
Francis Dinsley was born on 9th September 1898 in Grendon, Northamptshire, the only son of Charles Frederick and Frances Louisa Dinsley of Harrold, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire. The family moved to Sharnbrook and Francis was educated at Harrold Lower school and Bedford Modern school.
In May 1917 he enlisted with the Household Battalion, he was commissioned in June 1918 and attached to 4th Coldstream Guards. On 23rd of November 1918 he served with the Expeditionary Force in France and on 24th of December 1918 with the Army of occupation in Germany. He transferred to 2nd Battalion, fell ill almost immediately and returned to the UK. He died on 8th of March 1919 age 20 years at No.3 London General Military Hospital, Wandsworth from pneumonia contracted whilst on active service. He is buried in St Peter and All Saints church.
His commanding officer of the 4th Battalion wrote: "Everything he did he did with all his might and was so wonderfully keen. He did a great deal for the comfort and amusement of the men, and was greatly liked and respected by them".
As a pupil of Bedford Modern School 1911-16, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com.
Pte. James William Dinsley MM
British Army 1st/8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Willington
(d.12th Apr 1918)
My Great Uncle died in action just before the end of the war in Merville. Dinsley is a very rare surname and strangely enough he seems to have died the same day as another man of the same surname, only he was called Joseph. My thinking is that they may have been cousins or distant relatives.
Editor's Note: Private Dinsley was the son of Joseph and Jane H. Dinsley, of 33 Kathrine Street, Willington, County Durham. James Dinsley was fighting in the Battle of the Lys when he was killed in action aged 27, and he is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.
L/Sgt. George Patrick Diprose
British Army 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
from:Waltham Abbey, Essex
(d.29th Sep 1918)
Lance Serjeant Diprose was the son of Joseph and Myra Josephine Diprose, of 48, Sun St., Waltham Abbey, Essex. Born at Rochester, Kent.
He was 33 when he died and is buried in The Hague Roman Catholic Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Pte. Matthew James Disberry
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
Pte. Samuel Discombe MM.
British Army 99th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Wellington, Somerset
My grandfather, Sam Discombe, was a conscientious objector but did not refuse to go to war. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was a stretcher bearer. He survived the war and received the Defence medal in WW2. He was awarded the Military Medal as he distinguished himself in the field on the 20th and 21st of May 1917 on the Hindenburg Line.
Pte. William James Disley
British Army 141st Light Trench Mortar Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:London
Will Disley was my grandfather, he served with 141st Light Trench Mortar Battery which was part of the 141st (5th London Brigade) in the 2nd London Division.
Pte. Frederick Ditchburn
British Army 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Browney Colliery, County Durham
(d.19th Dec 1915)
Frederick Ditchburn was born around 1892, son of Thomas and Sarah Jane Ditchburn, of 61, Middle St., Browney Colliery, Durham. He was killed in action aged 23, probably around Ypres.
Gnr. Harry Wilfred Divall
British Army 166th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Harry Divall served with 166th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Pte. John James Diver
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Derry, Ireland
(d.21st August 1916)
Private John James Diver, 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment was killed in a night raid on a German trench on the Western Front near Loos on 21st August 1916. The war diary entry mentions the raiding party using Bangalore Torpedoes, which were explosive charges placed within tubes and used to clear obstacles like barbed wire whilst under fire. Officers who were killed that night are named in the diary, Lieutenants Fitzgibbon and Byrne. Five ‘other ranks’ were killed, among them my great uncle John James Diver. His unit was moved from the frontline the next day. He left a young widow and children back in Derry, Ireland. My grandfather William Diver (John James’ younger brother) was also in the 6th Battalion and in a field hospital being treated for shell shock when his brother was killed. He survived the war, and in June 1940 whilst then serving in the Royal Engineers was evacuated from Dunkirk which is only about 50 miles from where his brother was buried 24 years previously. He was later captured by the Germans on the island of Crete in 1941 and spent four years in a POW camp in Germany.
Pte. Hugh Divers
British Army 1st Garrison Btn. Royal Scots
(d.8th June 1916)
Private Divers was buried in the Troodos Military Cemetery in Cyprus, Grave 62.
Pte. Ernest Dix
British Army 2nd Btn Durham Light Infantry
(d.24th Sep 1918)
Ernest Dix, born in 1881 South Shields Durham was the son of Ansell and Mary Ann (nee Hendry). He was a single man employed as a general engineer (mainly marine). Killed in action, he is remembered on the Vis-en Artois memorial.
Pte. Matthew Hall Dix
British Army Durham Light Infantry
from:113 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Matthew Dix was born in Gateshead Durham on 13th of Nov 1875, son of Ansell and Mary Ann (nee Hendry) He married Susannah Alp and worked as a self employed Coal Dealer. He is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.
Lt.Col. Stephen Hamilton Dix MC.
British Army 12th/13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Chudleigh, Devon
(d.4th October 1917)
Stephen Dix was born on the 20th August 1879, son of Stephen and Annie Marina Dix, he was the husband of Ida Mary Dix and father of Michael Lewes Dix-Hamilton. He lived in Chudleigh, Devon.
Initially he enlisted with the 2nd Battalion Leinster Fusiliers. He rose through the ranks, promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 14th February 1900 and by 1914 he was a Captain. On 25th June 1917 he was attached on commission to the 12th/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
On 4th October 1917 they took part in the Battle of Broodseinde (part of the third Ypres, Passchendaele Battle) as part of the 62nd Brigade of the 21st Division. He was killed in action age 39 years and is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1889-92, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com.
Pte Thomas George Dix
British Army 1/8th Batalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Gateshead, County Durham
(d.17th Sep 1917)
Thomas Dix was the son of Alfred Dix and Louise Isabella Alp. He enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry in 1914, and married Hannah Ford in 1916. Thomas died of wounds on teh 17th of September 1917 and is buried in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux.
Pte. William George Dix
British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Paulton
(d.1st Jul 1916)
William Dix died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, at Redan Ridge near Beaumont-Hamel.
Capt. R. N. Dixey
British Army 173rd Brigade, C Bty. Royal Field Artillery
Private William Henry Dixey
British Army 4th Battalion Worcestershire Rgt
from:Hackney, London
(d.22nd August 1918)
William H Dixey was my Great Uncle. I know that he is buried in the Borre British Cemetery in Northern France nr Hazebroeck.Unfortunately I do not know where or how he died. His war record appears to be one that did not survive the second world war bombing!
Pte. William Henry Dixey
British Army 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Stoke Newington, London
(d.22nd Aug 1918)
"Jock" Dixon
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
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