Medals

15. Pte. Henry Dixon

 

Name

Henry (Harry) Dixon

Service number

3700, 7209 and 270063    

(nb. All three service nos. appear on one Pension Card)

Rank – including any

promotions, with dates

 

Private

Regiment

Durham Light Infantry

Battalion

1/6th, 18th  & Depot Bn 

(Medal Roll, Pension Card & Silver War Badge Roll)

Unit

 

Postings

Served overseas

Wounds

War Office Daily List No.5570 of 20/5/18 stated that he had been ‘Wounded’.

He suffered a ‘GSW Rt Arm’ (Pension Card)

Silver War Badge? (WWI)

Yes!  Badge Number B 20501  (Age 23)

PoW Info. Etc.

 

Date of Discharge

18/9/18 onto Pension         

(Medal Roll Index Card & WW1 Pension Ledgers & Cards )

Other Information

His pension for a 40% war-attributable disability eventually became a 25% war-attributable disability award from 6/1/23 for life. His weekly pension dropped from 16/- per week to 1/- per week.

 

Birthplace

 

Date of birth

1895     (WW1 Pension Ledgers & Cards)

Enlisted

21/4/15     (Medal Roll Index Card & Silver War Badge Roll)

Lived

1911 – Valley Terrace, Howden Le Wear

Parents

John and Ellen Dixon from Coundon

 + address

Next of Kin – Crook  (WO List No.5570)

Wife

Single

Married 1919 Alice Featherstone in Bishop Auckland

 + address

c/o  Mrs Featherstone, West Road, Crook     

(WW1 Pension Ledgers & Cards)

 

He also lived at ‘High St, Howden le Wear’ according to one Pension Card

Children

No children recorded

Occupation

1939 Colliery General Labourer, address 21West Road, Crook

 

Medals – held in

collection

Citations

1914/18 Victory Medal

Medals – others awarded but

not held in collection

British War Medal

  

1939 Register

Address 13 West Road, Crook

Henry Dixon born 10/03/1895 – Colliery General Labourer

Alice Dixon – wife – Unpaid domestic duties

John Featherstone B. 29/06/1875 – Colliery general Labourer

 

1911 census, Valley Terrace, Howden Le Wear

Father John Dixon B. 1860

Siblings

Mary 1890

Ernest 1897

Wilfred 1903

Herbert 1909

( 11 children born, 6 who have died.)

 

1911 census for Alice Featherstone

Born in Stanley Crook lived with brother and his family at Church Terrace, Stanley Crook;