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Personal data

• Name DICKSON
• Initials EJQ
• First name EDWARD JOHN QUAYLE
• Place of birth Manx
• Country Isle of Man
• Last residence Bayswater
• Family Son of Major J. Quayle, Knockaloe, Isle of Man
• Education Kings College School London; Camborne School of Mines (Cornwall)
• Profession Mining engineer
• Extra info Ref. South African Roll of Honour

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment November 1915
• Rank Captain
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 255th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career MC 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in two occasion, in entering a dug-out which had been wrecked by hostile shell fire, extricating the victims and carrying them to
  the dressing station, three hundred yards
  away, under heavy and continuous shell fire.
  By this prompt and gallant action he and his
  N.C.O. were the direct means of saving many
  lives, as the place was again hit directly after
  his work was completed. He has frequently
  proved himself an extremely gallant officer,
  with an utter disregard for danger when
  assisting others.(London Gazette, September 1917)

Death

• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 26 October 1917
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - A - 19

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