Lieutenant Alan James DICKSON (1911)

2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
Born 28 February 1892
Killed in action 16 November 1914, aged 22
Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium. Also commemorated on a stained glass window in Hillside Church, near Montrose, Scotland; the Cargilfield School war memorial; and the Fettes College war memorial.

Alan Dickson was born in Laurencekirk, the youngest son of Patrick Dickson and RI Dickson of Sunnyside House, Montrose.

He was educated at Cargilfield School, and Fettes College, Edinburgh. He matriculated at Merton in 1911, taking his BA in July 1914.

He received his commission as Second Lieutenant in the University Officer Training Corps in July 1914, and was ordered to the front at the outbreak of war.

He was killed in action near Zonnebeke on 16 November 1914, shortly after having been promoted to Lieutenant. (His date of death is sometimes given as 14 November.)