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Military service
Service number:
348804
Age:
20
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
3rd Bde.
Birth:
July 3, 1897
Port Hope, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 22, 1916
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
April 27, 1918
Étaples, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXXII. G. I.
Additional information
Son of Samuel S. and Margaret J. Dickinson, of Port Hope, Ontario.
Private Dickinson was a natural born mechanic and could make anything. He constructed a wireless telegraphic outfit at his home, making the greater part of it himself, from which messages could be plainly heard from Toronto. He was compelled to take the outfit down when war was declared.
Digital gallery of Gunner Vernon Samuel Dickinson
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Photo of Vernon Dickinson
Book of Remembrance (A record of the men of Port Hope who participated in the Great War of 1914-1918)" by James A. Elliott, Chairman of Committee, Port Hope, Jan 1, 1919 (Transcribed by Peter Bolton 2001) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 353 of 1084.
Digital gallery of
Gunner Vernon Samuel Dickinson
Digital gallery of
Gunner Vernon Samuel Dickinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 397 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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