Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

04/04/1916

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

25/06/1896

Place of Birth

Mount Morgan, Queensland

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

School(s) Attended

Geelong Grammar School

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Thomas Ingleby Dyson (father), Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria

Burial Place

Ballieul Communal Cemetery Extension, France in plot 3, row C, grave 191

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

8 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Died from wounds on 8 June 1917, Belgium aged 21 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 15, Canberra ACT
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT

Dyson entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon with the fourth intake of cadets in March 1914 and was graduated early along with the rest of his class in April 1916. He was appointed as a Lieutenant with the 34th Battery, 9th Field Artillery Brigade and arrived in France at the end of December 1916. He was transferred to the 31st Battery, 8th Field Artillery Brigade in January 1917. By late May and early June the 8th Field Artillery Brigade were part of the preparatory bombardment of German positions around Messines ridge in Belgium. During this period, on 6 June 1916, Dyson was severely wounded while "standing by the guns whilst the barrage was being fired and was shot in the lower abdomen and trunk with several bullets from an aeroplane." The Roll of Honour circular states that he was wounded near Hill 63 near Messines. He died from his wounds at the 53rd Casualty Clearing Station two days later and was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension in northern France.

Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 147 pounds, chest 35-38 inches, Church of England.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
AWM Roll of Honour Database
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)