This is your life story as much as I have been able to find out. Born on 6th May 1890 in Axminster. The son of Thomas Clarke Dimond & Charlotte. You moved to Kenn in Devon where sadly your mother died. Your father remarried and you moved to Lympstone and lived in Scotland House. On the 17th April 1911 you married Mabel Pring , and was employed as the gardener at Lympstone Lodge . Then war was declared. Enlisted 12 October 1916 12th Battlion Regiment Royal Artillery Norfolk at Brockenhurst. Gunner 320597. Embarkd from Southampton in February 1917 for Alexandria, and returned to France in June 1918. On the 20th August 1918 family receives telegram... Regret to inform you HS Dimond 12th Norfolk dangerously wounded in 1st Australian clearing station. Regret permission to visit can not be granted. Sadly died of wounds 21st August 1918

Valerie Taylor