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Name : Dyer brothers : Charles James, Arthur William, Albert Sons of James and Blanche Dyer, of Belmont Manor Rd., Verwood, Dorset.
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Census information : 1891 : James and Blanche Dyer, with their children including Charles aged 2, are at 29, Albert Street, Ventnor. James Dyer is a Blacksmith. 1901 : James and Blanche Dyer, with their children including Charlie aged 12, William aged 3, and Albert aged 1, are at 29, Albert Street, Ventnor. James Dyer is a Shoeing and General Smith. 1911 : Albert Dyer aged 11, is with his mother, Blanche Dyer, and his grandfather Charles Brewer, at Newtown, Verwood, Wimborne, Dorset 1911 : Arthur Dyer aged 13, is with his father, James Dyer, at 16 Albert Street, Ventnor. James Dyer is a Blacksmith. 1911 : Gunner Charles Dyer aged 24, is serving with 59 (Siege) Coy., Royal Garrison Artillery, at Roorkee, India. His trade is given as Clerk. |
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Service Details : 2/Lt. Charles James Dyer, 150th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery Private 12867 Arthur William Dyer, 6th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment Private 44149 Albert Dyer, 6th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment |
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Casualty Details : Charles James Dyer Died 7 March 1917, aged 34 [sic] Buried at Loos British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France CWGC Record Casualty Details : Arthur William Dyer Died 20 April 1917, aged 19 Buried at Feuchy British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France CWGC Record Casualty Details : Albert Dyer Died 11 October 1918, aged 19 Buried at Montay-Neuvilly Road Cemetery, Montay, Nord, France CWGC Record |
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Commemorated on these Memorials :
Ventnor War Memorial County War Memorial |
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Documents :
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, May 25, 1917 Page 3 Former Ventnor Family's Double Bereavement. TWO SONS OF MR. AND MRS. J. DYER KILLED IN ACTION. Sincere expressions of sympathy have been evoked in the town this week with Mr. and Mrs. J. Dyer, former Ventnor residents, in the death of two of their sons, who have been killed in action in France. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer were inhabitants of the town for many years and left about seven years ago. They now live at Westmoors, Dorset. They had a large family of sons who always took a great interest in local sport, and consequently were well known in the town. Five of them joined the Army and news of the death of two of them was received recently. Pte. A.W. Dyer, 6th Dorsets, was but a school boy when his parents left Ventnor. He joined the Army on the outbreak of war, being a year under military age. He served in the Dardanelles campaign and was invalided home with fever. Subsequently he was sent to France, where he was killed on April 20th by a shell splinter. He was 19 years of age. Lieutenant Charles Dyer, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, who formerly worked in Pickford's, Ventnor office, had been in the Army for ten years. He was 28 years of age. He was serving in India at the outbreak of war and was sent home, where he was engaged for some time at Southsea and elsewhere as gunnery instructor. Going to France his soldierly qualities soon commanded the notice of the authorities and he accepted a lieutenant's commission about three months ago, at the same time as similar preferment was offered to his colleague and school friend Q.-M.-S. Percy Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thomas, formerly of this town. Lieut. Dyer was killed by a shell splinter on May 7th. Both of these lads were old Ventnor National School pupils.
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, November 8, 1918 Page 1 Though no longer residents here, Mr. and Mrs J. Dyer, formerly of Albert Street, will receive sincere local condolence in the death of their youngest son, Pte. Albert Dyer, who was killed in action recently. He was about 20 years of age. This is the third bereavement Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have suffered in the war, two other sons, Lieut. Chas. Dyer and Pte. Wm. Dyer, having been killed last year. |
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Acknowledgments : Janet Griffin for newspaper and CWGC research. |
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