DICKINSON, Francis Sidney
| Service Numbers: | 5004, V81459 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 October 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train |
| Born: | Thorpdale, Victoria, Australia, 5 March 1889 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Manager & Commercial Traveller |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 7 July 1977, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Acacia, Garden 9, Bed 5, Rose 12 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Feb 1915: | Embarked Sergeant, 5004, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train, HMAT Chilka, Melbourne | |
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| 2 Feb 1915: | Involvement Sergeant, 5004, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Chilka embarkation_ship_number: A51 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Oct 1919: | Honoured Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant Colonel, V81459 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Sunners
Francis Sidney Dickinson was born on 5 Mar 1889 in Thorpdale, Victoria. He was generally known as "Sidney" or "Sid". He spent his early years in Thorpdale. When his father expanded his business interests in 1906 by establishing a store at Thorpdale South, it was a 17 year old Sid who managed the store. By the time he and his parents left the Thorpdale area in 1910 they sold up the businesses and Sidney, now 21, moved with his family to Melbourne. Within a few months of the outbreak of World War 1 Sid signed up for service, enlisting on 9 Nov 1914 at the age of 25 and was given the rank of sergeant a few days later. His unit was the 12th AASC (Australian Army Service Corps). Sidney served for six weeks at Gallipoli through Nov and Dec 1915 attached to the NZ & Aust. Divisional Train (Supply Corps). Later he served in Syria. He was recommended for the award of the O.B.E. His award of the OBE was noted in the local Melbourne newspapers:
"The Argus", Saturday, 16 August 1919, page 20
AUSTRALIANS ON SERVICE
HONOURS
DICKINSON.-News recently received states that Major F. S. Dickinson, senior supply officer, Australian Mounted Division, has had conferred on him the Order of the British Empire for service during the war in Palestine. He is the eldest son of the late Councillor F. Dickinson, of Thorpdale, and Mrs Dickinson, of Sidharvin, Repton road, East Malvern, and brother of Lieutenants H. J. and V. R. Dickinson (returned). All three are Anzacs, and received their commission on the field.
Sidney had not long returned to Australia when he married his long time fiancée Clara Rubina Duval Seekamp on 13 Nov 1919. Sidney was 30 years old, and Clara was 26. Clara Rubina Duval was born in 1893 in Coburg, Victoria to parents Francis Seekamp and Clara Hyde. (Dickinson Family, by Richard Walls, August 2018. ISBN 978-0-9806571-1-1)
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