2nd Lieutenant Lewis George Dickenson was born on the 25th of October 1878 at Sheffield.  He was the son of Frederick George and Ann Jemima Dickinson of Falmouth Villas, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.  

Lewis enlisted as a Private into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Derbyshire Regiment on the 21st of January 1901 with the number 5850 and was posted to “F” Company.  He was appointed Lance Corporal on the 1st of March 1903 with “F” Company and later became Lance Sergeant (from the 1st of June 1904).   

Lewis continued to serve with the 1/6th Battalion after the territorial reforms in 1908 when the 2nd Battalion became the 1/6th Battalion, with “E” Company.  He gained the Kings 100 in 1909 for shooting at Bisley and won many cups and spoons. He attained the rank of Company Quartermaster in 1911.  He also served with “D” Company with the number 272 at this time.   

Lewis saw service in the Great War (1914-18) landing in France on the 25th of February 1915.  He rose steadily through the ranks becoming a Quartermaster Sergeant and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on the 13th of March 1915.  Lewis was sadly Killed in Action on the 30th of September 1915, when aged 36 years, at St Eloi in the Ypres Salient when the Germans exploded a mine under trench 29 and corner of Angle Trench at Spoilbank, near Ouderdom, Belgium.   

Lewis was unmarried but had a fiancée.  He sung in the Holy Trinity Church choir at Matlock Bath.