Cecil Herbert Dixon
- Born: 1894, Geelong, Victoria Australia
- Marriage (1): Marion Evelyn (Mamie) Western in 1938 in Victoria Australia
- Died: 1983, Grovedale, Victoria Australia at age 89
General Notes:
Dixon, Cecil Herbert
Service Number: 13278
Rank/Calling: Private
Unit: Army Medical Corps - General Reinforcements (August 1915 - November 1918)
Ship Name: HMAT Karoola
Ship Number: A63
Date of Embarkation: 7/03/1916
Place of Embarkation: Melbourne
Cecil Herbert Dixon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 20/7/1915. His next of kin was his father Mr H. C. Dixon, C/o Gas Coy, Geelong. Cecil was an apprentice as a Chemist to G. W. MacGillivray, Geelong for 4 years.
On the Cetificate of Medical Examination Cecil is described as:- 21 years and 2 months, height - 5 feet 9 and three quarter inches, weight - 9 stone 3 pounds, chest measurement - 34 inches, complexion - fair, eyes - blue, hair - brown and religious denomination - Church of England. His distintive marks were - two small (can't read) on right wrist.
Cecil fought in France and was wounded and on 18/10/1917 admitted to hospital with gunshot wound right thigh,haemorrhage. He was critical list for some time. Once he started to recover he was transferred to a hospital in Darford, England and did not return to active service according to Lenore Frost.
. He was eventually returned to Australia per H. S. "Dunluce Castle" and was disacharged on 16/5/1918.
Lenore Frost replied:
Thank you for following that up for me. I think that photo is a match for the young stretcher-bearer.
I look at it this way, if I have someone identified in a photo, and contact someone related, and they come back with a photo which does resemble the person strongly, then it is probably the right person. If it wasn't going to be a match, you would expect it to look nothing like him, so I think that probably is the younger Cecil in the Williams' Album.
Now you know what Cecil did during the War!
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Chemist, Public Servant.
• connection.
Cecil married Marion Evelyn (Mamie) Western, daughter of Thomas John Joal Western and Marion Proctor, in 1938 in Victoria Australia. (Marion Evelyn (Mamie) Western was born on 4 Oct 1901 in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria Australia and died on 21 Jan 1992 in Balwyn, Victoria Australia.)
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