Alfred Dickinson was the son of Dr. Alfred James Dickinson, Sr., who pastored First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for eighteen years. JamesJr. attended Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama, and then the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the University of Chicago. After attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, he was ordained a Southern Baptist minister and served as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Eufaula, Alabama, from 1914 to 1918, when he entered military service as a U.S. Army chaplain. After the war he pastored the First Baptist Church in Tupelo, Mississippi (1918 – 1923); First Baptist Church, Newport News, Virginia (1923 – 1934); First Baptist Church, Mobile Alabama (1934 – 1944); and the First Baptist Church, Elkton, Kentucky, from 1946 until his retirement. In 1939 he received his D.D. from Howard College in Birmingham, Alabama.
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United States ArmyRank:
Captain (Chaplain’s Corps)Regiment:
356th Infantry RegimentDivision:
89th Division, American Expeditionary ForcesAction Date:
August 28, 1918
GHQ, American Expeditionary Forces, Citation Orders No. 5 (June 3, 1919)By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Captain (Chaplain’s Corps) Alfred James Dickinson, Jr., United States Army, is cited by the Commanding General, American Expeditionary Forces, for gallantry in action and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the Victory Medals awarded him. Chaplain Dickinson distinguished himself by gallantry in action while serving with the 356th Infantry, 89th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in action northwest of Xivray, France, 28 August 1918, in conducting funeral services over the body of an American soldier in No Man’s Land.