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2nd. Lt. Norman Brabazon Dick
British Army 17th(1st Football)Btn. Middlesex Regiment
(d.28th April 1917)
Norman Dick was born on 1st August 1882 in Brighton,Sussex, son of John Semple and Leonora Jocelyn Dick (retired East India Merchant). Educated at Bedford Modern school, the 1911 census shows he qualified as a teacher, teaching at Aldenham School (assistant Schoolmaster), he also taught at Merchant Taylors School.
He served with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, later attached on commission with the 17th Battalion. He was killed in action on 28th of April 1917, Pas de Calais. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Arras Memorial. He is also remembered on the grave of his grandfather Anthony Brabazon MD, St Marys church yard, Bathwick, Somerset. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1894-96, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.