Archibald Dickson (WWII)

Archibald Dickson was a British seaman who was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1892 and died in the North Sea in 1939.^[1][2] He was a hero of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Archibald Dickson
Born	1892 Cardiff
Died	1939 North Sea
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation	Sea captain

Naval career

Dickson was the captain of the SS Stanbrook, a British merchant ship that rescued almost 3,000 Spanish Republicans in the port of Alicante, in Spain, during the night of 28 March 1939.^[3]

On November 18, 1939, at the beginning of World War II, the SS Stanbrook was torpedoed in the North Sea by U-boat U-57. Archibald Dickson died on board.

Memory

Memorial to Archibald Dickson in Alicante.

His memory is celebrated by the cities of Cardiff^[4] and Alicante, in Spain, and by the Tower Hill Memorial in London.^[5]