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John Irving Dixon

In memory of:

Private John Irving Dixon

August 14, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

507519

Force:

Army

Unit:

4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)

Additional Information

Commemorated on Page 398 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

II. B. 66.

Location:

Bouchoir is a village in the Department of the Somme on the straight main road from Amiens to Roye. The BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY is on the north-east side of the road nearly 2 kilometres south-east of the village.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Circumstances of death registers– 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 695 of 1084. Initially buried in Folies Communal Cemetery Extension, 6 ½ miles North West of Roye. After the Armistice, his body, and those of other soldiers buried in several small Commonwealth cemeteries, and in the battlefields round Bouchoir and south of the village, were exhumed and buried in the newly created BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY.

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    Circumstances of death registers
    Circumstances of death registers – 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 695 of 1084. Initially buried in Folies Communal Cemetery Extension, 6 ½ miles North West of Roye. After the Armistice, his body, and those of other soldiers buried in several small Commonwealth cemeteries, and in the battlefields round Bouchoir and south of the village, were exhumed and buried in the newly created BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY.
  • Photo of JOHN IRVING DIXON– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Photo of JOHN IRVING DIXON
    Photo of JOHN IRVING DIXON – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave Marker– Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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    Grave Marker
    Grave Marker – Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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