BORN HOLBECK, LEEDS, 1881. ONLY SON OF JEREMIAH DIXON BICKERDYKE (1837- 1892) & MARY ANN STATHER (1847-1911). HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL LABOURER AND WAREHOUSEMAN. HE MARRIED AT SCARBOROUGH, IN 1903, AGED 22. HIS WIFE, NELLIE RIPON ATKINSON, LIVED AT 3 HERBERTS TERRACE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 08/09/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/07/1917, AGED 36. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW. HIS WIFE REMARRIED TO BECOME MRS MURRAY.
BURIED: COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HE RESTS IN PEACE, FROM WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN”
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM DIXON
Military Number:
39799
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
29/07/1917
Place died:
Coxyde Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
36
