In Memory Of

DICKSON, MICHAEL ARNOLD

Service Details
Age:
 38
Date of Birth:
 1908-05-31
Service No:
 66541
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:
 H.M.S.A.S. Crassula
Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
Date of Death:
 1946-10-17
Cause of Death:
 Died of pulmonary tuberculosis and enteritis. His death was confirmed by the military authorities to have been directly attributable to war service
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Mil. Allotment. Grave 96659A.
Cemetery:
 CAPE TOWN (MAITLAND) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Western Cape
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Francis and Florentine Johanna Dickson. Born June 1908. Educated at High School De Aar, Cape Province. General Botha Cadet draft: 1923-25 and in 1925 he became apprenticed to the Houston Line and served in the S.S. Hesione, gaining his first Mate's certificate in 1938. Soon after the declaration of was he became a Sub-Lieutenant in the SDF, but while on service he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and was discharged permanently unfit for duty.