Stanley Donovan DICKSON

  General Notes:

Marriages Mar 1914 Wandsworth 1d 716
BLACKMORE Bessie G to Dickson
Dickson Stanley D to Blackmore
Hawkins Mary A toTallent
Tallent Arthur to Hawkins

The marriage certificate appeared to demonstrate that this was not the same Bessie Gertrude as the father's name and occupation, as well as her age, were wrong. However, on inspecting the witnesses and comparing with Bessie on the 1901 and 1911 censuses it is clear that it is the same Bessie

Marriage Certificate
Married on March 10th 1914 at Holy Trinity Church in the parish of Upper Tooting, London
Stanley Donovan Dickson, 20, Bachelor, Compositor, 57 Sayna Road. Father Robert Edward Dickson, Compositor
Bessie Gertrude Blackmore, 22, Spinster, - , 30 Lucien Road Tooting Gransney. Father William Blackmore, Farmer
Witnesses were Walter F J Hodgson (aunt's husband), W E Dickson and B Hodgson (aunt)

This is likely to be his birth
Births Jun 1894
Dickson Stanley Donovan Wandsworth 1d 659

Possible Death - confirmed by family
Armed Forces BMD details
Registration event: Death
Name: DICKSON, Stanley D
Unit: City Of London Yeomanry
Rank: Private
Number: 3397
Year: 1915
Volume: C.2
Page: 182
Record source: GRO War Death Army Other Ranks (1914 to1921)

CWGC entry
Name: DICKSON Initials: S D Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Middlesex Hussars Date of Death: 21/08/1915 Service No: 3397 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Special Memorial A. 14. Cemetery: GREEN HILL CEMETERY
The cemetery is in Turkey (Gallipoli)
Heading North from Anzac, you will encounter the cemetery after 17.6 kms. on the right, adjacent to the track. Green Hill and Chocolate Hill (which form together Yilghin Burnu) are adjoining eminences, about 52 metres above sea level, which rise almost from the eastern shore of the Salt Lake. The cemetery lies on the east side of the Anzac-Suvla Road.

Email from his grandson says that he died in 1915 during WW1 at Gallipoli

Stanley married Bessie Gertrude BLACKMORE, daughter of Thomas Albert BLACKMORE and Matilda Gertrude HEDDEN, on 10 Mar 1914 in Tooting, London, England. (Bessie Gertrude BLACKMORE was born on 28 Aug 1890 in Barnstaple, Devon, England ¹ and died Jun Q 1968 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England.)