Sergeant William Dickinson
240211 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Lived at 49 Berry Street
Killed in Action 28th April 1917, aged 22
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Burnley News - May 1917
Burnley Express 12th May 1917 -
12th May 1917

Burnley News - May 1917 Burnley Sergeant Killed Formerly Member of St Paul’s Choir

Mr and Mrs Dickinson, 49, Berry Street, on Thursday, received official intimation of the death in action of their second son Sergeant William Dickinson, 1st/5th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, which occurred in France on April 28th. The Sergeant was 22 years old. Prior to the war he was a weaver at Maxfield’s Spring Hill Shed. He joined the Territorials in February, 1914, and was in camp at Carnarvon when the men were called back for active service. He left Bury on September 9th of the year war broke out, for Egypt. At that time he had attained the rank of Corporal. He went through the Dardanelles campaign. While at Gallipoli, he was made a Sergeant. Owing to illness he was taken off the Peninsula, and treated for five months in hospital in Malta. From the information his parents have received, it appears that Sergeant Dickinson was killed in action while a position was been taken. He was a fine type of young manhood, clean and straight in character, and of good physique. He attended Healey Wood Sunday and Day Schools from infancy, and had been a member of St. Paul’s Church Choir. He found his chief recreations in the football and swimming clubs connected with Healey Wood Schools.