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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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;
Sevenhills, Greenhills Business Pk
Spennymoor, Co.Durham, DL16 6JB
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