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Pte. Richard Chandler Dixon
British Army 1st/4th Btn King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Jarrow
(d.5th Oct 1918)
Richard Chandler Dixon died aged 22. The son of Robert and Margaret Dixon (nee Chandler) of 31 Henry Street Jarrow, he was born in Jarrow and lived and enlisted there. Richard Chandler Dixon age 9, at school, is with his parents Robert and Margaret Dixon and family at 31 Henry Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Richard is buried in Sunken Road Cemetery. Boisleux-St. Marc. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (north face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.