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14396   Lance Corporal John Harvey Dixon
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Dated added: 01/01/2016   Last updated: 30/12/2015
Personal Details
Regiment/Service: 14th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (British Army)
Died: 16/08/1917 (Killed in Action)
Age: 25
Summary      
John Harvey Dixon was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Dixon. Joseph Dixon was a watch maker. John Dixon was born about 1892 in Magherafelt. By 1901, the family had moved to Belfast. The 1911 census lists John as age 19 living with the family at house 36 in Hardcastle Street, Windsor Ward, Belfast. John was working as a Stationer’s Apprentice. John Dixon enlisted in Belfast. Lance Corporal John Dixon was serving with 14th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles when he was killed in action on 16th August 1917. He was 25 years old.
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Cemetery Details
Cemetery: Tyne Cot Memorial
  Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen
Grave Ref: Panel 138-140, 162 to 163A
CWGC Casualty 1630035
Summary      
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The names of those from United Kingdom units are inscribed on Panels arranged by Regiment under their respective Ranks. The names of those from New Zealand units are inscribed on panels within the New Zealand Memorial Apse located at the centre of the Memorial.
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1 1901 Census lists Dixon family 1901 census lists John as age 9 living with the family at house 12 in Maryville Street, Windsor Ward, Antrim
2 1911 Census lists Dixon family 1911 census lists John as age 19 living with the family at house 36 in Hardcastle Street, Windsor Ward, Antrim
3 1918 Belfast Street Directory Dixon, Joseph, watch maker and jeweller, 51 Ormeau Road
4 Central Presbyterian Association ROH Lists both John and his brother Benjamin
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