DICKSON, Alexander
| Service Number: | 3808 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lauder, Berwickshire, Scotland, 16 June 1886 |
| Home Town: | Maffra, Wellington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Maffra, Victoria, Australia, 13 November 1962, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 1 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3808, 24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3808, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3808, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 29 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3808, 24th Infantry Battalion, embarked Devonport for Melbourne on board HT Rio Negro | |
| 13 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3808, 24th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alexander Dickson (Service No:3808) enlisted in the AIF on 1 December 1915 and was attached to 24th Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne on board HMAT A69 Warilda on 8 February 1916. Private Dickson served in France, where he was WiA on two occasions - 10 August 1916, GSW arm, and 1 March 1917, shell abrasions to leg - and was hospitalised in England. Private Dickson embarked from Devonport for Melbourne on 29 May 1919 on board HT Rio Negor, and was atatched to 24th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 13 September 1919. Older brother Thomas Rutherford Dickson (Regimental No:2667) had served in the South African War, and was a Pioneer attached to 2nd Battalion Scots Guards when he was KiA by a sniper at Loos, France on 29 September 1915.
Born in Berwickshire, Scotland, Alex was eighth of ten children of Alexander Dixon Snr (b1842 in Roxburgshire, Scotland) and Violet Rutherford (b1849 in Roxburgshire, Scotland) Alexander Snr (a Master Joiner) and Violet married in Roxburghshire and lived in Lauder, Selkirk Inveresk and Edinburgh, where they raised their family and Alexander Snr was a Joiner.
Alex was a Mill Hand in 1909 when he immigrated, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Marathon. He was working in Maffra, Gippsland in 1915 when he enlsied in the AIF and, following his Discharge in 1919, returned to Maffra. Alex was working as a Driver in Maffra in 1923 when he married Jessie May Wishart (b1897 in Bega, NSW). Alex and Jessie settled in Maffra, where they raised their family and Alex worked as a Driver and Carter. Following Alex's death in 1962, Jessie moved to NSW where she died in 1977.