Thomas Harold DIXON

Regimental number6/3299
Date of birth2 July 1895
Place of birthChristchurch
ReligionBaptist
OccupationWarehouse assistant
Addressc/o G Dixon 53 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch
Marital statusSingle
Next of kinFather, G Dixon, 53 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch
Enlistment date23 August 1915
Rank on embarkationPrivate
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 8th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Willochra on 13 November 1915
Final rankLance Corporal
Final unit1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
FateKilled in Action 12 October 1917
Age at death from cemetery records21
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsTyne Cot Memorial (New Zealand Apse, Panel No 2), Zonnebeke, Belgium
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records		Parents: Gilbert and Mary Hannah Dixon, 85 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Wellington, 13 November 1915; disembarked Suez, 20 December 1915.

Joined Bn at Ismailia, 9 January 1916.

Embarked Port Said to join the British Expeditionary Force, France, 6 April 1916.

Wounded, 8 July 1916 (bayonet wound, right thigh), and admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance; transferred to No 1 Convalescent Depot, Boulgne, 15 July 1916; rejoined unit, Armentieres, 28 July 1916.

Detached to 2nd Army Rest Camp, 16 July 1917.

Appointed Lance Corporal, 18 July 1917.

On leave to United Kingdom, 31 July 1917; rejoined Bn from leave, 14 August 1917.

Killed in action, 12 October 1917.

Note on file: Report by 2 Anzac Burial Corps 19 November 1917, buried Passchendaele ... in and around the region of Bellevue [Ridge]'; grave subsequently lost.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Canterbury Infantry Batln/Eighth
SourcesArchives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805, File 20997479