Dinnin Ronald Nicholson 2/Lt 138528
Personnel Entry
Name Dinnin Ronald Nicholson
Army number 138528
Rank 2/Lt
Decorations
Date of birth 2/10/1910 South Shields.
Age 0
Unit Joined 1st Cadet Bn DLI 1929 to 1937, Called-up October 1939 and joined Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as a Cadet Officer, Posted Dunbar OCTU, Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 7/7/1940 (Gazetted 4/7/1940), Posted No 4 I.T.C. 7/7/1940, Posted 10th Bn DLI 10/7/1940, Iceland, Normandy, Attached Essex Regiment on disbandment of 10th DLI August 1944 and posted to 2nd Bn for only two weeks, Attached Leicester Regiment, Posted 1st Bn, Attached York and Lancaster Regiment 1945 and posted Hallamshire Battalion, Posted 4th Training Brigade, Released 1946 as Hon Captain. Joined Regular Army - RAOC - 1952 - 1960.
Company/Battery HQ Coy, Bn HQ, D.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role WTO, Platoon Commander, Transport Officer 19/3/1943, Carrier Platoon 2 i/c, Transport Officer, Chief Instructor - Technical Battalion.
Joined Brigade 10-Jul-40
Promotions W/S Lt 4/1/42, T/Captain 29/7/43. RAOC Lt 5/3/51 (Seniority from 27/4/45), Captain 26/8/51, Major 22/10/56.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Death registered October 2002 in South Tyneside at the age of 92.
Home address Son of Robert Nicholson Dinnin and Gertrude Dinnin. Father managed Gents' Outfitters.
Source table 10DLI
Some records showed that Captain Dinnin had died in September 2003. The date of October 2002 for the registration of his death was taken from Ancestry.co.uk archive of registration documents.
To hear an interview with Mr Dinnin, conducted by Peter Hart, Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum for their Archive Collection please click here.
