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Name: Frank DICKSON
Casualty No.: Ranks: Private Initials: F Service No.: 2473
Date of Birth : - Place of Birth : Addison Colliery, Co. Durham. Age at Death: 21
Unit: 1st / 9th Bn Durham Light Infantry (Territorial Force).
Former Unit(s):
Place Enlisted: Gateshead, Co Durham.
Place of Residence:
Home Address:
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Civilian Employment:
How Died: Died of wounds
Date of Death: Tuesday 7th November 1916
Place of Death:
Battle/Campaign: Battles of the Somme, France, 1916. Attack on the Butte de Warlencourt, 5th and 6th November 1916.
Locally Commemorated: No
UK Commemorated: -
Overseas Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Buried: No known grave.
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Photographs: 0
Service Records: No
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Family Details:
Son of James Dickson of 27 Mason Street, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Notes :
Sources Used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Soldiers died in the Great War.
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