Pauline Priano has submitted the following:-
Norman Dickeson was born 1896 in Cox Green and enlisted firstly assigned as Private 31229, 11th Reserve Cavalry Regiment and later transferred as Private 165072 Machine Gun Corps assigned to the 100th Battalion, 33rd Division as of January 1916. He saw action in the Battles of the Somme, in 1917 in the Arras Offensive, the actions on the Hindenburg Line, operations on the Flanders coast and the Third Battle of Ypres. Private 165072 Norman Dickeson was killed in action October 4th 1918, his body buried on the battlefield north of Gouy. After Armistice his body was exhumed and reburied in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, Aisne, France, grave II. C. 18. All monies owed to him were assigned to his father Richard along with his awards of the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Norman and his brother John James are recorded on memorials at All Saints Church, Penshaw, County Durham. John James is remembered at Craghead and South Moor. See separate story.
In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace.
Norman Dickeson is remembered at Penshaw on P29.01
