Friday 19 November 2010

8514 Pte Tom Dix, 2nd Bn, Dorsetshire Regt

8514 Private Tom Dix of the 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment died of wounds in Mesopotamia on the 19th November 1914. He was 25 years old, the son of Edith Jessie Dix of 3 Victoria Cottage, North Road, Parkstone, Dorset, and the late Thomas Dix. He is buried in the Basra War Cemetery in Iraq.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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