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 Cadet Lt 1st Cadet Bn DLI to 1937, Trf RNF, Posted OCTU, Emer Comm 2/Lt 4/7/1940, No 4 I.T.C., Posted 10th Bn DLI 10/7/1940, Iceland, Attached Essex Regiment on disbandment and posted to 2nd Bn, Attached Leicester Regiment, Posted 1st Bn, Posted 4th Training Brigade, Released 1946 as Hon Captain.
Company/Battery HQ Coy, Bn HQ, D
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role WTO, Platoon Commander, Transport Officer 19/3/1943, Company 2 i/c
Joined Brigade 10-Jul-40
Promotions W/S Lt 4/1/42, T/Captain 29/7/43
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. Post-War RAOC Lt 5/3/51 (Seniority from 27/4/45), Captain 26/8/51, Major 22/10/56.
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.
