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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN HENRY STEPHEN DIMMER

Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

Date of Death

Died 21 March 1918

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VADENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, MAISSEMY

II. B. 46.

France

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Photographer: Johan Pauwels

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd/4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Victoria Cross, Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Husband of Dora Garvagh (formerly Dimmer), of Ashby Hall, Lincoln.
  • Personal Inscription FOR KING AND COUNTRY HE GAVE GLADLY
  • Additional Citation note

    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."

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