Midshipman David Angus Dickson

 Photo from South Bucks Free Press 23 Oct 1914
(Jon Walters)

 Midshipman David Angus Dickson

  Memorial plaque in the Chapel at Sir William Borlase Grammar School

In Memoriam
Midshipman David Angus DICKSON  K.M.
aged 17
of this town, educated at Borlase School
1906 to 1911
He went down at his post of Duty
when HMS Hawke was sunk by a German submarine
in the North Sea on Oct. 15th  1914
Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori

 Photo by Peter Underwood with kind permission of the Headteacher Dr Peter Holding

Additional information about this casualty can be seen at:
The Book of Letters collated by B.T. Dickson.
This book includes intimate correspondence between David and his parents and photographs of David with his mother and father. See the foot of page 3 for photographs.

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