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Eldest of three brothers who served in the RAAF in WWII, Corporal Ronald Arthur Elder Dix (Service No:47996) enlisted at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide on 14 April 1942 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Flight Rigger, re mustered as Fitter. Promoted to Leading Aircraftman in 1943, LAC Dix served with 14 SU, 34 Squadron, and Central Flying School (CFS), and was attached to CMA Mallala when he was promoted to Corporal in 1947. Corporal Dix was attached to 2 Communication Squadron (Laverton Vic) at Discharge on 27 February 1948.

Ron was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1912, eldest of five children of Horace Woodrow Dix (b1889 at Finnis in Strathalbyn, South Australia) and Elsie May Elder (b1887 in Adelaide, South Australia). Horace and Elsie married in 1912 in Adelaide, and lived in Magill (Adelaide) where they raised their family and Horace was a Bread Carter.

Ron started work with the Postmaster General's Department in 1926 as a Telegraph Messenger, and in 1932 in Adelaide married his first wife Florence Adelaide Chamberlain (b1913 in Magill, Adelaide, South Australia). In 1942 when he enlisted in the RAAF, Ron was a Transport Driver with the PMGs Department, and following his Discharge, he and Florence settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family and Ron was a Shopkeeper. Ron and Florence divorced, and both remarried - Ron in 1966 in Adelaide to Jean Christabell Smith (nee Elliott; b1911 in Adelaide, South Australia) - Jean was a Nurse. Jean died in 1987 and Ron in 1998.