Born: 1869
Died: 23 February 1917
Buried:
Address: 7 Holdsworth Buildings, Eccleshill
Parents: Ernest & Ann
Spouse: Annie Elizabeth, nee Hey
Siblings: Emily, James, Wilfred, Alec
Occupation: Mechanic
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: L Cpl
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Eccleshill, Park & St Luke’s; Thiepval Memorial
Children: Alec, Mamie
Regiment: West Yorkshire
Gordon Dickinson
Gordon Dickinson was born in
1893 the son of Ernest and Ann
Dickinson who had married in
Bradford in 1869.
In 1870 they were living in
Highfield Road, Idle, later moving
to Chapel Street, Eccleshill and by
1891 to Westgate, Eccleshill after a
short spell in Rastrick.
During the whole of his lifetime
Ernest had worked as a stone
mason. At the age of 18 years
Gordon was working as a
mechanic.
In 1912 Gordon married Annie
Elizabeth Hey who was born in
1895 and they lived at
433 Harrogate Road.
They had two children
Alec born in 1913 and
Mamie in 1914.
When war broke out in
1914 Gordon and
Annie were living at 7
Holdsworth Buildings,
Eccleshill and Gordon
was employed as a
mechanic with Messrs.
James Hustler on
Victoria Road, Eccleshill.
Gordon enlisted on the 10th
November 1914 as machine gunner
Private 13312 of the West
Yorkshire (Prince of Wales
Own) Regiment.
After being on the Western
Front for 12 months he was
wounded in the head by
shrapnel and later had to
spend four months in
hospital suffering from an
acute form of rheumatism.
On recovering he served as
a bomber and had been
four months on the Front
when he was killed in action during
the British involvement in the final
of the Somme Offensive between
the 11th of January and the 13th of
March 1917.
At the time of his death he had
been promoted to Lance Corporal
and was 24 years of age. Gordon
is either buried or remembered at
the Thiepval Memorial.
His effects were left to his widow
Annie as his sole legatee who
received a War Gratuity of £11.0.0d
on the 16th December 1919.
Researched and written by Jean
Britteon, to whom many thanks
