Corporal
John Claude Dixon
Military Details
Service Number: 14000
Regiment & Unit / Ship
6th Border Regiment
Enlisted
1st July 1914
Awards and Medals
The Victory Medal
The British War Medal, 1914-18
Enlistment Details
Date of Enlistment
31/6/1914
Place of Enlistment
Cleator Moor
Residence at Enlistment
Seaton ,Workington
Rank at Enlistment
Corporal
Battalion at Enlistment
6th Bn.
Service Number at Enlistment
14000
Service History
Medical Records show Dixon was hospitalized 15/5/1915 to 29/9/1015 Beaufort Hospital Bristol bullet wound Thumb 1/10/1916 to 28/10/1916 Sevenoaks Military hospital GSW thigh
Personal Details
Date of Birth
1895
Place of Birth
Workington
Religion
C of E
Address
In Lodgings
Residence (Census)
10 Albert Street, Workington
Residence (Roll of Honour)
In Lodgings
Parents
William & Anne Frances Dixon
Siblings
John, Ethel, Stanley, Ernest, Percy, William harold
Education and Occupation
Occupation
GROCERS ASSISTANT
Death and Memorial
Date of Death
24th November 1917
Age at Death
22
Circumstances of Death
Killed in action
Place of Death
Ypres
Theater of Action
Flanders
Battle
The Battle of Passchendaele
Regiment at Death
Border Regiment
Battalion/Vessel at Death
6th
Rank at Death
Corporal
Notes
Johns attestation papers show he enlisted at Cleator Moor and that he was living in lodgings ( in Cleator Moor ? )
Buried or Commemorated at
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Position: Panel 85 to 86.
Private Memorial: St Johns War memorial
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