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
The wreckage of the Cloud of Iona is found
- Jersey Airways’ plane, The Cloud of Iona, disappeared between Guernsey and Jersey on the night of 31 July 1936.
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Jersey man in court accused of bigamy
- Jersey man Philip Vasse found himself in court accused of bigamy after his first wife was listed as his next of kin.
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Napoleon lays into Jersey in the French press
- Napoleon accused Jersey of granting asylum to criminals condemned to death, then sending them on raiding missions back into France.
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Jersey judge and prosecutor find themselves prosecuted in court turn-around
- A bit of clever argument from the accused saw a court in Jersey reconsider who exactly was to blame in an unusual case.
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