DIXON Daniel Owen Private 145053

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DIXON Daniel Owen Private 145053

2000-2024

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Surname: DIXON;

Forename(s): Daniel Owen;

Initials: DO;

Number: 145053;

Rank: Private;

Born in: Portsmouth;

Enlistment Date: 03-Jun-1917;

Resided in: Portsmouth;

Previous Number: 68091;

Previous Battalion: 4 of;

Previous Regiment: Devon Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 22-Mar-1918;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 37 Bn;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 37 Bn;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 11 Bn;

Date abroad: 26-May-1918;

Theatre of War: 1;

Other Data: Editor "Boy David", Major, living SW3
Liverpool Daily Post 9/6/1973 reporting on the survivors of the MGC…"Major Dan Dixon, Hon Sec of the OCA, who climbed down a drainpipe at 15 to run away from boarding-school and tell the Army he was 19, enabling him to be in the trenches in France at the age of 16 - I was a big fella, was his explanation for being able to defeat the age limit. He also thinks that the Corps casualty rate was possibly the highest of any section of the armed forces at the time. "The backroom boys gave us a life of 6 weeks in the trenches; that was the chance statistically of being wounded or killed. Reinforcements for the MGC were worked out on that basis"
Boy David 40, Sept 1963, No 52 Aug 1967
Army Education Corps - Instructor - India 31/1/1935
OCA Member: 11 Bywater St, Chelsea SW3 4XD
b. 1900. Died 27/11/1980
married Apr 1925 Louisa Dyer at Headington, Oxon

Extracts from Service File in hands of son (John Dixon) of Abingdon:
nok: Mrs M Dixon, 117 Francis Avenue, Portsmouth
enlisted 3.6/1917 - to 34 Trg Res Bn (No 8/7817) Sutton Veny 17/7/1917
13/1/1917 transf to 4 Devon Regt (No 68091), Larkhill
22/3/1918 to 87 Tr Res Bn (MGC) Clipstone - new number 145053
to 4 Bn Clipstone Camp 12/4/1918
to France 26/5/1918
joined B Coy 37 Bn MGC in the field 29/5/1918
5/11/1918 gunshot wound left elbow & rt heel - Forest of Mormal
to 49 Field Ambulance - to 20 Casualty Clearing Stn
30/12/1918 8 Stationery Hosp, Wimereux
15/1/1919 to UK aboard Hosp Ship Cambria
16/1/1919 to Gosforth War Hospital
16/2/1919 to duty - Receiving Depot MGC Trg Centre
12/3/1919 to 3 Bn, Grantham
14/3/1919 re-enlisted for 4 yrs
21/6/1919 to "X" Nucleus Bn, Grantham
26/6/1919 to 11 Bn Shorncliffe Barracks, Folkestone
unpaid L/Cpl 15/9/1919
embarked SS Malwa, Tilbury 24/10/1919
14/11/1919 Bombay
24/12/1919 paid L/Cpl, Cawnpore, Acting Cpl same day, Temp Corp same day
Act/Schoolmaster 23/2/20
13/8/1920 Act/Sergt & Educ NCO Cawnpore
Transferred Army Educational Corps, Sgt Instructor, Fyzabad
1st Class Certificate of Educ at exam , Cawnpore, 25/1/1921
attached 1 North Staffs Regt Primulgherry 17/6/1923
to Rest Camp Deolali 23/9/1923
to UK - disem. Southampton 20/10/1923
leave from Shorncliffe to 3/12/1923
4/12/1923 attd Ox & Bucks Light Inf, Oxford.
New Army No: 7811621
Special Army Cert of Education 7/4/1922 - distinguished in English, Geography, Map Reading, Mathematics and Eur. History
Married, Oxford 18/4/1925 Louisa Isabella (Dyer): son Conrad Hepworth Dixon b. 27/1/1927, son, John Dixon b. 18/5/1936
6/1/1926 Educ Instr. Thames & Medway Defences
Engagement extended to 21 years
WOII 11/5/1928
6/1/1931 to India - Headmaster Garrison Schools, Madras
31/1/1935 WOI
6/2/1938 Garrison Educ Tidworth
2/10/1938 posted to Palestine
26/12/1938 to Palestine Force HQ
15/2/1939 to 5 Casualty Clearing Stn, bomb splinters, superficial, left thigh, knee - Jerusalem
to UK - WO in charge garrison edication Tidworth
23/8/1939 mobilised - attd HQ Southern Cmd
2/9/1939 to Intelligence, HQ Lines of Communication
10/9/1939 BEF France
17/5/1940 GHQ Intelligence
20/5/1940 6 Gen Hosp - bomb spliners lower neck (boulogne)
21/5/1940 to UK
25/7/1940 WO in charge, Educational Conval. Dept, Southern Cmd.
18/1/1941 - to S Lanc Regt
26/4/1942 WI I/c West. Cmd. Conval. Depot, Chester
21/9/1942 extra-mural Dept Univ of Bristol
12/2/1943 WO I/c Education 70 Northants Regt
27/7/1943 to 523 Coast Regt Royal Arty.
15/8/1943 to HQ 42 Armd Div
10/9/1943 to HQ 6 Airborne Div
8/12/1943 Emergency Commission - Lieutenant (Education Officer)
8/12/1943 to 1 Signal Trg Centre
30/5.1944 HQ Hants & Dorset District
5/5/1945 Act Captain
8/7/1945 Army Sch of Education Aldershot
25/8/1945 to Port of embarkation
26/8/1945 GHQ West Africa and assumed appt as Educ Officer, Accra, Gold Coast
29/10/1945 relinq appt as Educ Officer
7/2/1946 Regimental Captain.
Medals: British War Medal (GV), Victory Medal (GV), Army Long Service & Good Conduct medal (GVI), General Service Medal (bar Palestine) (GVI), 1939-45 Star,
War Medal (GVI)
PHOTO (in 0old age) GS Archive
Article: Chelsea News and General Advertiser 26 January 1962;

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