Rear Adm Sir Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken

18/01/1888 — 03/04/1964
A brief biography

Ancestors


Charles Gauntlett Dicken 1854 — 1937
Margaret Christiana Cornish 1856 — 1888
Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken 1888 — 1964
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Monique Marie Lillie Beatrice O'ryan 1904 — 1996  

Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken


Son of Charles Gauntlett Dicken and Margaret Christiana Cornish. .

Born in 1888, the fifty-first year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and died aged seventy-six in the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

Royal Navy


15.09.1902


entered RN
20.09.1922
-
(01.)1925
Naval Attaché, Paris (accredited to France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Poland)
18.12.1925
-
(07.)1927
Executive Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic)
16.12.1927
-
(08.1929)
Executive Officer, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(04.1930)


no appointment listed
08.06.1930
-
(08.)1930
Commanding Officer, HMS Clematis (sloop) (Mediterranean)
10.1930
-
(01.)1932
Commanding Officer, HMS Lupin (sloop) (Mediterranean)
(09.1932)


no appointment listed
17.01.1933
-
(06.1933)
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
06.03.1934
-
(02.1936)
Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
11.01.1937
-
(02.)1937
senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
03.04.1937
-
(04.)1939
in charge of Naval Establishments at Hong Kong [HMS Tamar (receiving ship)]
31.07.1939
-
01.02.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
05.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
also: Naval ADC to the King
02.02.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
17.10.1940
-
1946
Assistant Controller, Admiralty [HMS President]
Chairman, Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society.
Dicken,
John Aldersey
J.A. Dicken
Only son of 2nd marriage of late Adm. Charles Gauntlett Dicken (1854-1937), and Ada Mary Byron.
Half-brother of R.Adm. E.B.C. Dicken, RN.
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23.09.1896
Surbiton, Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
08.04.1959
Winchester
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
15.05.1926
28.08.1939
-
(07.1945)
Staff Officer (Intelligence) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Falmouth [HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)]

awards

1914/15 Star, British War Medal 1914-1920, Victory Medal, Naval General Service Medal, 1939/45 Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, 1911 Coronation Medal, George V Jubilee Medal, George VI Coronation Medal
Officer Order of Redeemer 26.04.1918, Chevalier of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus (Italy) 07.08.1916, Grand Officer Order of Orange-Nassau. 04.06.1946, Officer Legion d'Honneur 1948


Ranks


Midsh.
?
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.04.1907
Lt.
15.07.1909
Lt.Cdr.
15.07.1917
Cdr.
30.06.1922
Capt.
31.12.1929 (retd 25.06.1940)
Cdre. 2nd cl.
03.04.1937
R.Adm. (retd)
25.06.1940

Biography

Rear Adm Sir Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken was born on 18 January 1888, his father, Rear Charles Gauntlett, was 33 and his mother, Margaret, was 31.
He married Monique Marie Lillie Beatrice O'Ryan in December 1936. He died on 3 April 1964 in Fulham, Middlesex, at the age of 76.


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