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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Captain Peter
Gerald Charles Dickens DSO, MBE, DSC, RN (6 April 1917 - 25 May 1987)
was a Royal Navy officer during World War II and a great-grandson of
novelist Charles Dickens.The son of Admiral Sir Gerald Charles Dickens
and Kathlen Pearl Birch, Peter Dickens was born in Fulham in London in
1917. Dickens joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet in September 1934,
being promoted to Midshipman in May 1935 when he was serving aboard HMS
Nelson in the Home Fleet. Dickens was Acting Sub-Lieutenant in September
1937 and Sub-Lieutenant in May 1938 while serving aboard the Royal Yacht
HMY Victoria and Albert III in Portsmouth. In 1940 he took part in the
evacuation from Dunkirk.