Cecil Herbert Dixon

  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. My connection to Lenore Frost is as follows:
Leonore Frost writes:
I have a commemorative website of men and women who volunteered for service during WW1 who were local to Essendon and Flemington. I have had access to a photo album of the Williams brothers, George Gordon Williams and Harold Williams of Ascot Vale who served in France and Belgium with 12 Field Ambulance. I am currently working through the photos, and have just put up one which identifies Cec Dixon.
Cecil Dixon (1894) married Marion Weston (1901)
Her father was Thomas Weston (1866) who married Marion Proctor (1875)
Her father was Henry Proctor (1846) who married Caroline Groube (1844)
Her father was Rev. Horatio Groube (1814) & he also had George Groube (1847)
He had Edith Groube (1880) who married Percy Howe (1866)
His father was Robert Howe (1833)
His father was Frederick Howe (1805)
His father was James Howe (1777)
His father was George Howe (1741) & he also had Sarah Howe (1775)
She had Alexander Moss (1811)
She had James Moss (1846)
He had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864)
She had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
She had me- Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

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.)