Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
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Langrish Patrol | Patrol member | 05 Nov 1940 | 03 Dec 1944 |
Factory worker
Ken Dickenson lived at New Barn, Buriton and travelled to Langrish each day in his 3 wheeler. Ken's daughter Edna informs us that her father was in charge of the explosives and was the Patrol's weapons expert. She had very little recollection of her father during wartime due to her age, but does remember him going off in uniform; the photos are of her father taken at the back of their home in Buriton.
Her brother has only post war recollections of his father ‘going poaching for deer’ with the gun in the photos. He said it was very effective unless his Dad forgot to put it on single shot; on one occasion he apparently emptied a whole clip of ammunition into a deer. There was not much left for dinner. His Dad may have handed it in during a weapons amnesty.
Dickinson was employed at Talbot-Ponsonby's factory, possibly as a foreman.
TNA ref WO 199/3391
1939 Register
The Dickenson family
Jon Radcliffe