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Personnel Entry

L/Cpl Dixon R B with Major Roper - Brigade Major

Name Dixon Robert Bagnall
Army number 4455504
Rank Pte
Decorations
Date of birth 01-Aug-20
Age 0
Unit Enlisted 8th Durham Light Infantry, T, 2/5/39. Posted 11th Bn 1/9/39. Attached 70th Brigade HQ. B.E.F.. Dunkirk. Served Iceland. Posted Permanent Staff 13/11/42. Posted No. 4 ITC 10/6/44. Class Z Army Reserve 1946.
Company/Battery Brigade Headquarters. No 4 Infantry Training Centre - MT Section.
Platoon or other sub-unit Motor Transport Section of Brigade HQ.
Task or role Driver/Orderly (Internal Combustion). Personal Driver to Brigadier Kirkup Sept 1939 - July 1942. Driving Instructor.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions L/Cpl
Wounded hit with shrapnel in the left wrist while engaged in evacuating wounded via the Dunkirk East Mole. The effect became more serious as time progressed and he was hospitalised for several weeks - losing his L/Cpl rank as a result for a time. After the War he had orthopaedic grafting done which resulted in the left wrist being permanently stiff, although he had the use of his fingers. He received a disability pension and was awarded the King's Badge for that injury, and the deafness he suffered from shelling and mortaring during the retreat to Dunkirk. His medical downgrading meant that he was moved to driving instruction duties at the ITC in 1942 and was not allowed to go to Normandy with the Brigade, despite his attempts to do so.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 3/6/1998.
Home address Married Hannah Quinn 23/9/1944 at St John's Church, Quebec, County Durham.
Source table 11DLI

To read the Page of L/Cpl Dixon's first cousin, click here Pte John Robert Bagnall.

Further Images

Dad with Wagon - aged 17

Dad wearing Service Dress - probably early 1939 - with Mum

Dad in battledress - post Dunkirk

Dad fishing in Iceland 1941

Dad at Rehabilitation Unit post-War