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Pte. Robert Dixon
Canadian Army Cavalry Machine Gun Squadron
from:Jarrow
(d.30th Oct 1918)
Robert Dixon aged 27 who died on 30th October 1918 was born in Jarrow 1891. He was the son of William and Hannah Dixon (nee Ridley) of "Elmfield", Monkton, Jarrow. Robert Dixon's parents William and Hannah Dixon and family are at 68 Breamish Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Robert is bruied in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manacourt and is commemorated on the Monkton Memorial in Monkton Village, Jarrow.
Pte. Robert Charles Frederick Dixon
British Army 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Derby
Robert Dixon, my grandfather, was born 11th February 1887 at Ibstock, Leicestershire. He served in WW1 with the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers. He was reported Killed in Action on 27th May 1918 in France. I have the letter informing my grandmother. However, he had been gassed in a shell hole and apparently, rather than hit him with the butt of his rifle, a German took him as a P.O.W. It was a huge shock to my grandmother when some time later he walked into his home in Derby, very much alive.
Pte. Roland Dixon
British Army
from:Oldham
Roly Dixon is my Grandfather. He often recalled his time at Ypres. His funny story was the fact that he had been sent home on R & R (Rest and Re-cooperation) and that when he returned to the front line, he was requested to carry a large flask of tea on his back, which was something more like and urn of tea. Unfortunately, his urn of tea had been punctured by a bullet, thereby the tea had drained from the flask. When he got to the front, they were all wishing that the urn of tea had survived and that it would be preferable that he had been shot. What a character.
Sgt. Sydney Clunas Dixon
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Spr. Thomas Dixon
Canadian Army 2nd Canadian Tunnelling Company Canadian Engineers
from:Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Pte. Tom Dixon
British Army 1st Bt, D Coy,. Norfolk Regiment
from:Weasenham
(d.28th April 1915)
There is very little known about the army record of my Great Uncle Tom Dixon, except that he was 31 years of age when he was killed. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, in Northern France. I believe that he was married with three daughters. I have now started to research my great uncle and intend, with other members of my family, to travel to the cemetery next year (2015) on the centenary of his death.
Pte. W. Dixon
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
W Dixon was wounded in October 1916
Pte. Wallace Dixon
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Commissioned 28th Aug 1917
Sgt. Wilfred Agar Dixon
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th & 13th DLI and att. 89th Labour Corps & Details Btn
Pte. William Henry Dixon
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
L/Cpl. William Baldwin Dixon
British Army 17th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:England
(d.11th Jul 1918)
William Dixon served with the 17th Battalion, Manchester Regiment during WW1 and died on the 11th July 1918 of Pneumonia in a German Hospital, aged 27. Probably a POW, he is buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery in Germany. He was the son of James and Jane Dixon.
L/Cpl. William Baldwin Dixon
British Army 17th Btn. Manchester Regiment
(d.11th July 1918)
William Dixon died 11th July 1918 of Pneumonia in a German Hospital, aged 27. Buried in the Berlin South Western Cemetery in Germany, he was the son of James and Jane Dixon.
Pte. William Arthur Dixon
Australian Imperial Force A Coy 52nd Btn.
from:Sydney, NSW
(d.9th June 1917)
As far as I know, Private William Dixon was in the attack of the 7th of June 1917 at Messines Ridge and was hit by either a sniper's bullet or a shell blast. He was seen to be lying in a shell hole along with a Pte Laidlaw, George Carmichael and another man named Wall. Research from the Red Cross archives states that he was buried in dugout on the Ridge but CWGC has recorded him as having no known grave, and his name is on the Menin Gate Memorial as well as our own Australian War memorial in Canberra.
All I know about him is what I have read from his file (also in Canberra) stating that he was a well digger and that he enlisted in 1915. He left for duty in the HMAT Ceramic in 1916. My father, his brother, never spoke of him and it was only when I was doing my family tree that I discovered my late uncle. William died aged 45 or 46.
I will in the future go to Belgium to try and get a feel for the horror that unfolded there, albeit nearly 100 years ago. Lest We Forget.
L/Cpl. William Dixon
British Army 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Hanbury, Worcs
(d.25th January 1917)
William Dixon was killed in action on 25/01/1917 in Mesopotamia aged 23.
Pte. Willie Dixon
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Hartlepool
(d.18th Sep 1916)
Willie Dixon aged 27 was lost whilst serving with the 14th DLI, remembered on the Thiepval Memorial he was the son of Elizabeth and the late John Dixon; husband of Elizabeth Jane Dixon, of 31 Topcliffe St., West Hartlepool.
2nd Lt. George Frederick Dobbin
British Army Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Dublin, Ireland
(d.16th Aug 1915)
George Dobbin was born Aug. 18th, 1894, and killed in action at Suvla Bay 16th of August 1915.
J. Dobbin
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1917)
Cpl. Alexander Dobbins
British Army 5th/6th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
(d.8th May 1918)
Rflmn. Ernest George Dobbs
British Army 12th Battalion London Regiment
from:Homerton London
(d.7th April 1917)
Ernest Dobbs was my great uncle, and the younger brother of my grandfather. My father was born about 6 months after Ernest George died and my father must have been given his middle name Ernest in his memory and I never knew this or heard of Ernest George before I started looking into my heritage for the 100th Memorial in 2018.
Pte. Samuel Charles Dobbs
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Hubbard Dobbs
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lt. Robert Newport Dobbyn
Royal Flying Corps
(d.23rd Nov 1916)
Second Lieutenant Robbin Dobbyn is buried in the south-east boundary of the Ballynakill House Private Burial Ground, Co Waterford, Ireland. He was the brother of Mrs Clarke of Ballynakill House, Co Waterford.
Pte. Robert Dobinson
British Army 20th Tyneside Scottish Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:17 The Fold, Monkseaton
(d.1st July 1916 )
I bought Robert's medals not realizing that he was married with a daughter. He was 39 when he fell at Lochnargar Crater that tragic day. I believe the old fold is still there in Monkseaton. I have all paper work including his Tyneside Scottish scroll still in its original roll case, I have no photographs.
Dobson
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. Alfred Dobson
British Army 18th Labour Coy. Army Service Corps
(d.13th Aug 1915)
Alfred Dobson drowned at sea, the ship he was travelling on was sunk by UB14 off the island of Kandeloussa.
Pte. Bramley Dobson
British Army 12th Btn Machine Gun Corps.
from:Jarrow
(d.5th Apr 1918)
Bramley Dobson died age 25 whilst serving with 12th Battalion Machine Gun Corps, he had formerly served in the West Yorks Regiment. He was the son of William and Annie Dobson of Womersley Doncaster and the husband of Annie Dobson (nee Mitchell) of 275 Albert Road Jarrow. Born in Womersley, he lived in Jarrow and enlisted at Pontefract.
Bramley is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery.
Gnr. C. J. Dobson
British Army 173 Brigade, A Â Bty. Royal Field Artillery
(d.2nd December 1916)
Gunner Dobson is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Grave III.A.186.
Pte. Henry Sporforth Dobson
British Army 331st Road Constructions Company Royal Engineers
from:Albion Buildings, Great Thornton Street, Hull, Yorkshire
Henry Dobson is my maternal grandmother's father who was born in 1872. At the outbreak of WW1 he went along to the recruiting office in Hull but was turned away by the Recruiting Officer with the words,"Go home Grandad, we don't need you." He finally received a notice in May 1917 and returned to the recruiting office in Hull. At this time he was 44 years of age. He was almost rejected from service on medical grounds because he wore dentures but according to my grandmother he told them, and I quote, "I am going there to fight, not bite the buggers!" This was very typical of Henry because he was quite a character.
He was recruited into the Royal Engineer's 331st Road Construction Company and sent to France. In May 1918 he was poisoned by a gas attack and sent to the Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield before moving on to the the Military Convalescent Hospital at Ashton in Makerfield near Wigan. He left this establishement in August 1918 and returned to service. Henry was demobbed in March 1919 and returned home to his family in Hull where he continued to live until his death in January 1939 at the age of 66 years. He was the father of 13 children, the youngest of whom was my grandmother.
Pte. James Willie Dobson
British Army 5th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:41 Wild Boar Street, Bradford
James Dobson was my grandfather, who enlisted in 1915. He survived the war. My father has a copy of the Roll of Honour, purchased in a used book shop many years ago. My grandfather's entry states that he fought at “many important battles, including Neuve Chapelle, St. Eloi, Vimy Ridge, and the Somme. He was badly gassed and after treatment returned to the line where he was wounded in action 4 times".
I was told that his father, my great-grandfather, enlisted on the same day, and I have a copy of the enlistment register which gives his enlistment date as 6th of January 1915 in the West Yorkshire Regiment.
Cpl. John Dobson
British Army 12th (Bristol) Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.8th May 1917)
John Dobson died aged 29. The son of John and Christianna Dobson (nee Snowball), he was born, lived and enlisted in Jarrow. John Dobson age 24, Plumbers Labourer in Shipyard, is with his mother Christianna Dobson and family at 45 Chaytor Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
John is remembered on the Arras Memorial. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (north face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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