Roger Samson Thomas DIX

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DIX, Roger Samson Thomas

Service Number:	417948
Enlisted:	27 September 1941, Kensington, SA
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Magill, Adelaide, South Australia, 20 May 1922
Home Town:	Magill, Campbelltown, South Australia
Schooling:	Magill Public School, South Australia
Occupation:	Lineman (PMG)
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 29 August 2011, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

27 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Kensington, SA
15 Aug 1942:	Involvement Warrant Officer, 417948
15 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide
3 Dec 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Youngest of three brothers who served in the RAAF in WWII, Warrant Officer Roger Samson Thomas Dix (Service Nos:S41480/417948) initially served in the ACMF as a Signalman with 4 Lines of Communication (PMG) from 27 September 1941 to 11 August 1942, when he was Marched Out to Area 10A for enlistment in the RAAF. On 15 August 1942, he enlisted in the RAAF at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide as an Aircraftman II, then Leading Aircraftman - mustered as Air Crew and re mustered as Air Gunner. Promoted to Warrant Officer by April 1944, WO Dix was attached to 3 Air Observers' School Port Pirie (Instructor) at Discharge on 3 December 1945.

Roger (Robert on his BDM SA record) was born in Magill, Adelaide, South Australia in 1922, youngest of five children of Horace Woodrow Dix (b1889 in Finnis, Strathalbyn, South Australia) and Elsie May Elder (b1887 in Adelaide, South Australia). Horace and Elsie married in 1912 in Adelaide, and settled in Magill where they raised their family and Horace was a Bread Carter.

Roger worked as a Shop Assistant and Railway Porter before joining the Postmaster General's Department as a Lineman in Training in 1941, when he enlsited in the ACMF. Roger was in the RAAF in 1944 when he married Shirley Pearl Whitehorn (b1922 in Adelaide, South Australia). Following his Discharge, Roger and Shirley settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family and Roger worked as a Land Agent. Roger died in 2011 and Shirley in 2017.

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