WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 124528 | Pte Harold Arthur Thomas Dixon | Labour Corps | |
| Medal card | Awarded Victory and British medals. | ||
| AVL | AVL Address: The Rosary, East Street c/o A/A.P.M. APO S100 Mediterranean Lines of Communication [maybe assigned to Army Post Office] Not on Roll of Honour |
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| No service record available on Ancestry | |||
Family history etc
| Harold Arthur Thomas Dixon | |||
| 1896 | B 1896, Nottingham | ||
| 1911 | Student at St Cuthbert’s Catholic boarding school Sparkenhill Worksop | ||
| 1917 | 7th May 1917: Harold married Eileen Bennett Oliver at the Registry Office, Nottingham |
occupations: Private 25th DLI, normally Lace warehouseman Tobacco manufacturer’s clerk Residences: Scotton Camp, Catterick Bridge, Yorks 31 Percival Street, Nottingham |
Parents: Thomas Airey, Doctor of Medicine James Oliver, Surveyor |
| AVL | The Rosary, East Street | As we have found no other connection with Bingham, we can only assume he lodged at The Rosary. | The Marston family lived at the Rosary. The son of the House was Harold, who served in the Army Ordnance Corps. |
| Electoral Roll | 1918: Spring 1919 HATD and Edmund Ilife Oliver [brother-in-law?]
Both marked as absent voters [“a”]. Autumn 1919: HATD “a”16 Collinson Street, Nottingham, also Edmund Ilife 1920: 52 Bridlesmith Gate (business): abode 40 Pierrepont Road West Bridgford. 1923:50 Beauvale Road Nottingham 1927: 116 Sneinton Vale 1931: with Elsie Annie, 25 Arden Close, Beeston [see below] |
A paper manufacturer and dealer, Dixon & Co, were listed at 52 Bridlesmith Gate. | |
| 1922 | Wife Helen died Dec 1922 in Nottingham: | ||
| 1923 | Emigrated to Canada June 7th 1923 on SS Melita; widowed, occupation: Warehouseman, intended to find similar job in Toronto. | Next of Kin: mother’s address Mrs M Dixon, 40 Bridgford Road, Nottingham | |
| 1923 | Returned on August 23rd to Glasgow on the SS Saturnia giving his age a 28 and his address in UK as 40 Bridgford Road. His occupation was “Salesman”, | His intended permanent residence was “England”, | |
| Poss second marriages: Elsie A Illingworth, Huddersfield 1936 or Elsie Pogson, Scarborough, 1930 |
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| 1939 register | Victoria Hotel, Awsworth Road, Ilkeston: Harold AT Dixon, b. 5 April 1895, married Elsie A Dixon, b. 22 October 1895, married May Doddemeade (Tarr), b. 28June 1914, single |
Licenced Victualler (Heavy Work) Landlady, Licensed Premises Bar and general domestic duties |
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| Genes reunited newspaper 1949 |
BOWLS CLUB: Reports death of Harold Arthur Thomas Dixon, of Noah’s Ark Inn, Borrowash, licensed victualler, died August 28, left £2,735 1s. 3d. gross | ||