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Claude Wilfred Dicker

Rifleman

Service No. 41317

Age 21

Died on 13 August 1917

Royal Irish Rifles

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of the late Fred Dicker; husband of E. M. Smith (formerly Dicker), of 1, Weston Square, Holt, Norfolk.

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Susan Huskisson

Although you died so young you will live on through your descendants. As a father, granddad and great granddad, we will always remember you

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Lucy-Ann Huskisson

"Move him into the sun, gently its touch awoke him once..."

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We will remember them.

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I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you.

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We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

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John Hatchett

To my great great Uncle I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you.

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John Hatchett

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Claude Wilfred Dicker was married in September 1916 before being conscripted to the army on the 24th October 1916. He was originally part o...

Susan Huskisson

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Claude Wilfred Dicker was my Great Grandad who was killed in action during the First World War. In 2008 I visited Ypres where I saw the Meni...

Lucy-Ann Huskisson

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Claude’s Medal Index Card reveals he originally joined his local regiment, The Essex Regiment. At some point he was transferred to the R...

John Hatchett

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