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Son of Joseph and Emma Dixon of Millstream, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private James Arthur Dixon
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Private James Arthur Dixon
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 687 of 1084. His grave was located ¾ mile North of Pozieres, 4 ¼ miles North East of Albert. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and re-interred in COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY (also known as Mouquet Road or Sunken Road Cemetery).
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Private James Arthur Dixon
From the Daily Colonist of November 2, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y280uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 687 of 1084. His grave was located ¾ mile North of Pozieres, 4 ¼ miles North East of Albert. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and re-interred in COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY (also known as Mouquet Road or Sunken Road Cemetery).
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From the Daily Colonist of November 2, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y280uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Page 78 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Courcelette is a village some 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Courcelette British Cemetery is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track, suitable for cars, from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres. The route is signposted in the village.
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