DIXON, William Ingham
| Service Number: | 2604 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, January 1877 |
| Home Town: | Tighes Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 22 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Tighe's Hill Public School HR, Tighes's Hill Methodist Church Honour Roll, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll, Wickham Honey Suckle Point (H.S.P.) Loco Railway Workshops Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2604, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2604, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2604, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 14 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Infantry Battalion |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
William Ingham DIXON (Service Number 2604) was born in Yorkshire in 1877. He had briefly been an apprentice coachbuilder in Newcastle but joined the NSWGR there as a boilermaker’s helper at the Hamilton locomotive depot in 1903, moving later that year to the workshops at Honeysuckle Point. In July 1915 he enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool.
Submitted 16 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John Crispin Dixon and Hannah Dixon, of 31, Bryant St., Tighe's Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
William Ingham DIXON (Service Number 2604) was born in Yorkshire in 1877. He was an apprentice coachbuilder in Newcastle for a short time. He joined the NSW th Government Railways as a boilermaker’s helper at the Hamilton locomotive depot in 1903. Later that year he moved to the workshops at Honeysuckle Point. In July 1915 he enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool.
He mbarked at Sydney in November 1915. He was sent to France via Egypt. He landed there in March 1916. He was killed in action between 22nd and 27th July, subsequently reported as 24 July. He is buried at a map reference ‘in vicinity of Pozières’.
The grave could not be located later, but he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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