Aaron Dickens died 3 days before the Armistice

Aaron Dickens was born in Kirkintilloch about 1897 but his family lived in Cumnock for many years.

His father was Charles Dickens who was born in Warwickshire but appears as a lodger with Emanual Rolinson (my great grand uncle) in 1881 census at 7 Glengyron Row, Cumnock. He married a relation of the family he lodged with, Fanny Price, in 1883.

In 1891 they lived at Glaisnock Street
Charles Dickens 28 coal miner b England
Fanny Dickens 24 b Dalry
Thomas Dickens 5
Joseph Dickens 3
Emma G Dickens 1
children born Cumnock

1901 census
6 Freeland Place, Kirkintilloch
Charles Dickens 38
Fanny Dickens 34
Thomas Dickens 15
Joseph Dickens 13
Emma Goodman Dickens 11
James Hancock Dickens 9 b Cumnock
Aaron Dickens 4 b Kirkintilloch
George Dickens 1 b Kirkintilloch

Aaron was a private in the Highland Light Infantry when he died  on 7th November 1918, just 4 days before the Armistice.  He is buried at Valenciennes St Roch Cemetery in France. He was 21. He had previously been wounded in April 1918.

Kirkintilloch Herald Nov 1918

He is remembered on a stained glass window in the YMCA in Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch Gazette 4 Jun 1920

See him on
Cumnock Connections tree
He was my second cousin 2x removed

Here is his entry on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site