DICKINSON, John Leonard
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Known as:
Jack
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Hull City Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
14241642
P.O.W. number:
6178
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Thursday, September 16, 1915
Birthplace:
Hull, Yorkshire
John Leonard Dickinson joined Hull City Police as PC 239 on 7 October 1935. In WW2 he volunteered for the Commandos enlisting 26 July 1942 as part of the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Lance Corporal John Dickinson, No.3 Commando, was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations in Sicily, later found to be a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association from Cottingham, East Yorkshire.
Prison Camps
19 July 1943 - August 1943 Campo PG66.
August 1943 - 13 Sept. 1943 Campo PG73.
16 Sept. 1943 Stalag XV111A
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/66.
Prisoners of War Lists / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/96/231.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/91/1.
The 1939 register covering Kingston upon Hull.
The Policemen of Hull, Hutton Press, 1992, author Tony Clarke.
Police Historians Martin Stallion and Tony Moore, FRHistS.
Commando Association newsletter 120.
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