220943 Godfry J.R. Dixon British Army 53rd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps My dad was a dispatch rider in the 53 Recce Regiment. His name was Godfry J R Dixon; he was sent to Ireland at the outset of war. I remember him telling my brothers and myself how the people in Ireland used to ask him what religion he was. He would say a Zionist and they would ask him home for dinner or tea to try and change him to become whatever they believed, he said he never had it so good. How true it was I do not know.
He also told us how when he was in Kent they used to race the Canadian dispatch riders on the narrow country roads. Their bikes had running boards and the British had movable foot rest, so the British riders would pull the foot rest up so they could lean over further and go round the bend quicker. Unfortunately the Canadians could not and a lot of them ended up in hospital.
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