Mr. Niko Dickinson
RAMC member | General Duties Medical Officers-6929.10.1896
Biography
Niko Dickinson was born on the 29th of October in 1896 somewhere in Europe, though not many people actually know where. Some records state he was born in Sweden, others Romania. His memories from childhood are faint, though he had always been a good-spirited and well-meaning kid, according to his parents. In school, his innocence could get the better of him sometimes. He had worked a part time job during his junior and senior years of high school as a bellboy at a hotel somewhere in Hull, which is where he lived at the time.
By the time the Great War had broke out in the UK, Niko was already approaching his adulthood, so he was supposed to be drafted. Due to the confusion of his nationality, some officers hesitated to pull him into the British Army, but eventually he was pulled into it. This proved to be a big mistake, mentally he was clearly not ready for this, behaving like a scared kid sometimes in the trenches. On what the officers would call - his good days - he became capable enough to be effective in battle...but he needed encouragement to get to that. This lasted about a year.
After showing a heightened amount of empathy to a wounded soldier, one of his commanding officers decided it would be better for Niko to go into the medical care department rather than stay out on the fields where he wouldnt be much use. He received several weeks of training on the medical field and by December of 1915 had enough knowledge to help out. Although a little squeamish at first--empathy for the wounded won Niko over and within a few months he was doing much better as a medic than he was on the field, affirming the officers beliefs that it was Nikos true calling.
At the time, some of Nikos ideas on how to treat injuries were seen as dangerous - however now in retrospect we would call them modern ideas. After he proved that his strategies were sometimes more effective than the other medical officers around him, he was allowed to continue what the superiors called experimental treatments.
Niko did not know when the war would end, but he vowed to stay at his post until the last moment possible he could do so. Throughout 1916 he served on the Asturias and the Mauretania assisting the wounded, growing a bit more desensitized to the violence but never losing empathy for the wounded.
Following a fairly unnoteworthy life (for a member of the RAMC at least) he was signed onto the HMHS Britannic on its fifth voyage through October 1916 and was supposed to stay on the ship through its sixth voyage in November. Due to the fact that, over the course of the war Niko had matured and grown stronger and braver, some officers were thinking about moving him out of the medical corps and back to the battlefield. He knew this, and wondered what he could do to change their minds...if anything could interfere with the decision.
By the time the Great War had broke out in the UK, Niko was already approaching his adulthood, so he was supposed to be drafted. Due to the confusion of his nationality, some officers hesitated to pull him into the British Army, but eventually he was pulled into it. This proved to be a big mistake, mentally he was clearly not ready for this, behaving like a scared kid sometimes in the trenches. On what the officers would call - his good days - he became capable enough to be effective in battle...but he needed encouragement to get to that. This lasted about a year.
After showing a heightened amount of empathy to a wounded soldier, one of his commanding officers decided it would be better for Niko to go into the medical care department rather than stay out on the fields where he wouldnt be much use. He received several weeks of training on the medical field and by December of 1915 had enough knowledge to help out. Although a little squeamish at first--empathy for the wounded won Niko over and within a few months he was doing much better as a medic than he was on the field, affirming the officers beliefs that it was Nikos true calling.
At the time, some of Nikos ideas on how to treat injuries were seen as dangerous - however now in retrospect we would call them modern ideas. After he proved that his strategies were sometimes more effective than the other medical officers around him, he was allowed to continue what the superiors called experimental treatments.
Niko did not know when the war would end, but he vowed to stay at his post until the last moment possible he could do so. Throughout 1916 he served on the Asturias and the Mauretania assisting the wounded, growing a bit more desensitized to the violence but never losing empathy for the wounded.
Following a fairly unnoteworthy life (for a member of the RAMC at least) he was signed onto the HMHS Britannic on its fifth voyage through October 1916 and was supposed to stay on the ship through its sixth voyage in November. Due to the fact that, over the course of the war Niko had matured and grown stronger and braver, some officers were thinking about moving him out of the medical corps and back to the battlefield. He knew this, and wondered what he could do to change their minds...if anything could interfere with the decision.