Ryde Cemetery
Mr Ernest Henry George Dimmick (Sapper)
Title: Mr
Forenames: Ernest Henry George
Surnames: Dimmick
Date of Birth: 01/01/1882
Baptism Date: 01/10/1882
Date of Death: 13/03/1919
Burial Date: 18/03/1919
Age at Death Years: 37
Grave Type: War Grave
Military Rank: Sapper
Map Reference Number: RSHG 001 C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 2 Plot 156
Grave Description: Small white Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Added baptism date, source: Totland Bay Parish records. Age recorded on headstone is 38 but he was 37.
Sapper (abbreviated Spr) is the Royal Engineers' equivalent of Private 518111. Experimental Bridging Coy. Royal Engineers
In January 2009 we were contacted by Graham Squibb who told us his grandfather, Mr Ernest Henry George Dimmick (Sapper), was born in 1882 in Freshwater.
Ernest died in Bournemouth Military Hospital
Sapper (abbreviated Spr) is the Royal Engineers' equivalent of Private 518111. Experimental Bridging Coy. Royal Engineers
In January 2009 we were contacted by Graham Squibb who told us his grandfather, Mr Ernest Henry George Dimmick (Sapper), was born in 1882 in Freshwater.
Ernest died in Bournemouth Military Hospital
Old Website Grave ID: 528
Inscription:
518111 SAPPER
E. H. G. DIMMICK
ROYAL ENGINEERS
13TH MARCH 1919 AGE 38
GOD LOOKED UPON HIS FACE
AND TOOK HIM TO
A PEACEFUL PLACE
Photographs:
E H G Dimmick
Photographer: Janette Gregson
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