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Ernest Lester Dixon

In memory of:

Private Ernest Lester Dixon

November 22, 1916

Military Service


Service Number:

470373

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Division:

12th

Additional Information


Born:

July 4, 1897
Lower Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

September 17, 1915
Sussex, New Brunswick

Son of Solomon and Joanna Dixon, of 324, Ashmont St., Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Commemorated on Page 78 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

I. I. 10.

Location:

Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Grave Marker– Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
  • Photo of Ernest Dixon

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