James Victor DIXON

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DIXON, James Victor

Service Number:	2303
Enlisted:	16 May 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Burrongong, New South Wales, Australia, June 1895
Home Town:	Stockton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Boilermaker's assistant
Died:	53 foot fall, Newcastle Hospital building site, 25 February 1947
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-G NW. 40.
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World War 1 Service

16 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2303, 33rd Infantry Battalion
17 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 2303, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 2303, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney
31 May 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2303, 33rd Infantry Battalion, GSW shoulder (Blighty)
25 Oct 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion
13 Mar 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2303, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918
22 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2303, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

‎Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

A tragic end to a Forgotten Digger of The Great War and Sandgate Cemetery.

73 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 28th February 1947, Private James Victor Dixon, 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion, boilermaker's assistant (Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.), of Dunbar Street, Stockton, New South Wales and 4 Watson Street, Islington, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 52. BAPTIST-G NW. 40.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132864734

Born at Burrangong, New South Wales (1895) to Samuel and Lilian Josephine Dixon of Crown Street, Stockton, New South Wales; husband of Elsie May Dixon nee Brien (married 1937, died 1963), James enlisted May 1916 with the 33rd Battalion at Broadmeadow, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133751155

Wounded in action - 31.5.1917, (GSW shoulder), 13.3.1918 (gassed - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138156391), Vic returned home March 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159361640

His name has been inscribed on the Stockton Soldiers' Memorial.
Mr Dixon died tragically on the 25th February 1947 while working as a rigger on the Newcastle Hospital site.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158256170
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132849845

I placed a cross September 2016 at the unmarked grave of Mr Dixon, now forgotten, in remembrance of his service for God, King and Country.

He will be honoured with a plaque from the Forgotten Diggers Headstone Project.
Lest We Forget.

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