23rd August 1938
Explorer Major General Edward Thompson Dickson dies
St Helier-born Edward Dickson saw much of the world at a time when travel was a far more arduous process than it is today. He was educated at both Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and fought in several battles in Sudan. Upon returning to the UK mainland, he was appointed to command the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment.
At the turn of the century, he was appointed to Barbados and spent four years in the West Indies before becoming General Officer commanding forces in West Africa. The latter part of his career was spend establishing and commanding various Territorial Army units and his death in 1938 came at the end of a long – 26 years – retirement in Tunbridge Wells.
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Other events that occured in August
Man held on St Helier stabbing charge
- A man who was convicted of manslaughter in Jersey was later found hanged in his cell.
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The National Trust for Jersey holds its first formal meeting
- The Very Reverend Samuel Falle, the Dean of Jersey, chaired the National Trust for Jersey’s first official meeting.
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Jersey’s military government is dissolved
- The Channel Islands’ political recovery from the Occupation of the Second World War was swift, even if the physical scars remain.
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Jersey plane makes bomb threat detour
- Thirty passengers on their way to Jersey strapped themselves in as their aircraft performed an about turn in mid-air
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