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Pte William Ewart Dyer
2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade
Sub.Lt. Edwin L.A. Dyett
Royal Navy 5th Nelson Btn. 63rd Royal Naval Division
(d.5th Jan 1917)
Edwin Dyett was executed for desertion in the face of the enemy on 5th January 1917 and is buried in Le Crotoy Communal Cemetery, Somme, France.
Perhaps presuming upon the traditional leniency extended to the better classes, Dyett had little inkling of his fate during the weeks after his arrest. Hed been collared during the aforementioned Somme campaign for desertingĀ¯ for two days when hed taken umbrage at being directed to the front by an inferior officer and instead returned to headquarters for orders. As late as Christmas Eve, he was still keeping his parents in the dark, certain that the misunderstanding was not enough to even cause a sitting.Ā¯ That sitting, however, occurred forthwith on Boxing Day, with only a half-hour for the defense to prepare. That defense was less than robust, and the court clearly disinclined to a sympathetic reading of the circumstances.
Dyett had only just turned 21, but clemency appeals around youth and the confusion of the situation would cut no ice. If a private behaved as he did,Ā¯ wrote the officer charged to review it, it is highly likely he would be shot.Ā¯ Lt. Dyett had only a single evening from hearing the bad news to prepare himself for what must have seemed to him a shocking turn of events. This time, he posted a different sort of missive to the home front.
Dearest Mother Mine, I hope by now you will have had the news. Dearest, I am leaving you now because He has willed it. My sorrow tonight is for the trouble I have caused you and dad. Please excuse any mistakes, but if it were not for the kind support of the Rev. W.C. ā€¯ who is with me tonight, I should not be able to write myself. I should like you to write to him, as he has been my friend. I am leaving all my effects to you, dearest; will you give a little ā€¯ half the sum you have of mine? Give dear Dad my love and wish him luck. I feel for you so much and I am sorry for bringing dishonour upon you all. Give ā€¯ my love. She will, I expect, understand - and give her back the presents, photos, cards, etc., she has sent me, poor girl. So now dearest Mother, I must close. May God bless and protect you all now and for evermore. Amen.
Dad didnt take it with the stiff upper lip; after a futile campaign to clear the boy, he renounced his citizenship and emigrated to America.
Pte. Christopher Handel Dyke
British Army 1st Btn. Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
(d.6th Apr 1916)
Son of Edward and Annie Brooks Dyke, of Playing Close, Charlbury, Oxon.
Pte. O. M. Dyke
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Walter Dykes
British Army 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Tynemouth
(d.7th July 1916)
Pte. Thomas Dykes
British Army 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Cullercoats
(d.14th April 1915)
Pte. Thos. Dykes
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
Sgt. William Dykes
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Haslington
(d.18th April 1918)
William Dykes lived at 132 High Street, Haslington and enlisted in Crewe on 29th of November 1915 giving his age as 19 years and 4 months, he gave the wrong age (as was common) and had been born in 1898 so he was only 17 at the time. His father William was a carter for the co-op stores and William worked in the train sheds at Crewe.
He fought in the War for 2 years and 141 days and was wounded and hospitalised on two occasions. He was promoted in the field to Sergeant on 20th of October 1917. He was granted leave at the end of March 1918 and was killed on his return less than three weeks later. His recorded death was the 18th of April however he was likely to have been killed before this as this was the day the Welch Fusiliers were relieved and this is when he would have been reported as missing in action. The fury of the battle was on the 14th and 15th and William's body was never found.
His name is on the memorials at Tyne Cot memorial in Belgium (along with 35,000 other unfound soldiers) Haslington Town Memorial and the Crewe Railway Workers Memorial now in the first class lounge at Crewe station.
Pte. James Loius Dykins
British Army 1st Btn Cheshire Regiment
from:Hulme Manchester
(d.31st Aug 1917)
James Dykins served with the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. I am researching all my relatives who served in the Armed Forces, with the Dykins surname.
Able Sea. Malachi Dymock
Royal Navy HMS Genista
from:Downham, London
(d.23rd Oct 1916)
Malachi Dymock was my great-uncle, for whom my father was named. I have all his medals as well as two letters he wrote to his sister from HMS Genista. Both letters mention him waiting to see the skipper on two occasions, after shore leave. I hope he had a good time and it was worth having to see the captain!
L/Cpl. Alfred James Dymott
British Army 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:101 Conway Rd, Plumstead, London
(d.24th March 1918)
Alfred James Dymott was born in 1895 in Plumstead, South East London. He was the youngest of five brothers born to Henry and Eliza Dymott (nee Whiskin), and he was known as James or Jim, rather than Alfred. His brother and my grandfather, Arthur, lived at 101 Conway Road from 1914 until Arthur died in 1972. In 1911 James is recorded on the census as being employed as a 'house painters boy'.
He joined up in the autumn of 1914 disembarking at Le Havre on 17th March 1915. He was promoted to Lance Corporal and died on 24th March 1918 whilst serving in a new support line at Boiry St. Martin, Ficheux. He was killed outright, along with three comrades, during a withdrawal of the battalion to a new support line near Boiry-St.-Martin during the German Spring Offensive. Another 13 being wounded on that particular day. He is buried at Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux. His headstone reads: Gone from us but not forgotten never shall thy memory fade. He was 22 years old.
Pte. George Henry Dymott
British Army 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
from:Plumstead, London
(d.26th/27th Sep 1917)
George Dymott was married to Florence with a son aged three and a daughter Florence under a year old. He died of wounds aged 24 and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was my Granddad's cousin.
Pte. Frederick Dyson
British Army Lancashire Fusiliers
I came across a WW1 medal and am trying to trace this soldier's relatives if he had any. As well as the medal I have some of his war records. His card says Frederick Dyson of the Lancashire Fusiliers served 2B/Balkans. The date of entry theatre 27th of September 1915. It also says he was awarded all three WW1 medals. He later went on to serve in the Labour Corps. Does anyone have any information about this soldier, so I can return this medal to his family?
The medal was found by my late father-in-law in a public house clearance when he was working for a brewery back in the 1960s in or around Chester, Cheshire. Any information will be treated as strictly confidential.
Pte. Sidney Dyson
British Army 1/8th Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Oldham
(d.17th Feb 1919)
Gnr, William Thomas Dytor
British Army 113rd Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Clive, Shropshire
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