Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment, 6th Battalion, Service no. 57904
Born: 18th July 1899. Died: 1986
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Lester was baptised in Swillington on 2nd August 1899, and brought up at 15 Queen Street, Bowers Allerton, the son of William Arundel Dickinson (1867-1955) and Fanny Lloyd (1869-1939). Lester had six brothers and sisters.
Lester enlisted in the 6th West Yorkshire Battalion, known as the Bradford Pals, on 29th April 1918, in Pontefract. He was a coal miner, 5 ft 3½ inches tall, and had moved to 10 Helena Street, Kippax. After training at home, he was sent to Russia for a day, and then spent 73 days on active service. He was hospitalised on 11th January 1919 with a sinus infection which developed into influenza. He left the Army on 13th November 1919, and returned to coal mining in Kippax. Lester married Elizabeth Wagstaff in Kippax on 11th April 1925. By 1939, they were living at 7 Bickerdike Row, and Lester was still a coal miner, they later moved to 12 Bickerdike Terrace. Lester passed away in Kippax aged 86.
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