Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Allen Dixon, son of Joshua and Ann Dixon. In the 1891 census they lived at 4 Packington Street and Allen was 2 years old. In 1917 his parents lived at 10 Packington Street. In the 1911 Census he was a quarryman (stone getter). Private, 8th Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers, #340553. Died 27 February 1918. He had only been in France for ten days. Grave Reference: III.B.31, Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France Also remembered on Egypt Methodist Church Memorial window.'