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Lt.Col. John Henry Stephen Dimmer VC, MC
British Army att. 2nd/4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Ashby Hall, Lincoln
(d.21st March 1918)
John Dimmer was killed in action on 21st March 1918 aged 35 and is buried in the Vadencourt British Cemetery in France.
he was the husband of Dora Garvagh (formerly Dimmer), of Ashby Hall, Lincoln.
An extract from The London Gazette dated 19th Nov., 1914. records the following:- "This Officer served his machine gun during the attack on the 12th November at Klein Zillebeke until he had been shot five times - three times by shrapnel and twice by bullets, and continued at his post until his gun was destroyed."