DIXON, Joseph Bowman
| Service Number: | 3090 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 July 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 29 May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway porter |
| Died: | War related causes, Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 5 January 1931, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-150. 72. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3090, 1st Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 3090, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 3090, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 14 Jul 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 10th Field Company Engineers | |
| 13 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3090, 10th Field Company Engineers, 2 MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.
90 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 7th January 1931, Sapper Joseph Bowman Dixon, 10th Australian Field Company Engineers (Reg No-3090), railway porter from Glebe Road, Adamstown, New South Wales and 2 Church Street, Lambton, N.S.W., father of two (Jean and Nancy), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 36. ANGLICAN 2-150. 72.
Born at Adamstown, New South Wales on the 29th May 1894 to William and Mary Dixon of Kellerberrin, Western Australia; husband of Olive May Dixon nee Roals (married 1919, Lambton, N.S.W., died 1966?), Joseph enlisted June 1916 with the 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion at Broadmeadow, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 24.10.1918 (influenza), Joseph returned home March 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 13th April 1919.
Mr Dixon’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 17th December 1921, 233 names inscribed, 32 Fallen (not 33), and the Stockton Soldiers' Memorial. Name not inscribed on the NSW Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour 1914-1919.
Officially commemorated with a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, I have placed poppies at Joseph’s gravesite to honour his service and sacrifice for God, King and Country.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/.../index.php...
Service record states “Deceased 5/1/1931 (CWGC)”.
Younger brother Bertrand James (Reg No-1637, 55th Battalion, KIA 9.5.1917) memorialised at the gravesite of his Grandparents James and Sarah Wilmott who are sleeping at the cemetery. ANGLICAN 1-13. 51.
Lest We Forget.
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