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DIXON, Laurence Beatty

Service Number:	QX16941
Enlisted:	23 April 1941, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Pittsworth, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, 29 November 1918
Home Town:	Dalby, Western Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Malaya, 29 January 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Column 128, Singapore Memorial (with Kranji War Cemetery). Also the Roll of Honour: Kaimkillenbun, Western Downs Region, Qld., Singapore Memorial, Singapore
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dalby 'The Fallen' Honour Board, Dalby War Memorial, Kaimkillenbun War Memorial, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX16941
23 Apr 1941:	Involvement Private, QX16941, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
23 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Private, QX16941, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia
23 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX16941, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Daniel Bishop

Son of John Archibald, & Abigail DIXON, of Mocattas' Corner, Irvingdale, Western Downs Region, Qld.