Thomas Fielding Utley DIXON

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DIXON, Thomas Fielding Utley

Service Number:	NX43404
Enlisted:	22 August 1941, Paddington
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 10 September 1913
Home Town:	Lismore, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand & Labourer
Died:	Malaria whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo, 24 January 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia Panel 10
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Lismore St. Andrew's Anglican Church Sandakan Memorial Plaque

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX43404
22 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, NX43404, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion, Paddington
22 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX43404, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
7 Jul 1942:	Imprisoned
24 Jan 1945:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, NX43404, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Thomas Fielding Utley DIXON was born in Lismore, NSW on 10th September, 1913

His parents were Thomas DIXON & Annie Agnes SCHNEIDER who married in Lismore in 1911

He enlisted with the Australian Army in Paddington, Sydney on 22nd August, 1941 and was with the 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion

He was taken Prisoner of War (No. 628) by the Japanese and left Changi in Singapore on 7th July 1942 on the ship Ubi Maru and arrived in Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp (No. 1) on 18th July, 1942

Thomas died of Malaria on 24th January, 1945 and was buried in the Sandakan No. 1 Compound Cemetery - his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Labuan Memorial

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