Basic Details
Surname
Dixon
Forenames
F C
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Alternative forename
Frederick Charles
Served or died
Died
Service number
27942
Notes
The Roll listed his address as the Royal Oak Hotel.

(CWGC records that Private Frederick Charles Dixon, regimental number 27942, died on 3/5/1917 while serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Bay 7 of Arras Memorial in France. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects records that Frederick was officially accepted as having died at Arras on 3/5/1917, and that his mother Fanny was his legatee. On the 1911 census he had been living with his parents at the White Hart Inn in New England, Peterborough, of which his father Charles was the publican).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Northants Regt
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
6th
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Not Stated on Memorial
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1917
Month of death
May
Day of death
3
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial