Dixon Robert Bagnall Pte 4455504 - Revision history

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 [[File:Dad with wagon.jpg|500pg|left|thumb|Dad with Wagon - aged 17]]
-[[File:Dad_in_Service_Dress_with_Mum.jpg|500pg|centre|thumb|Dad wearing Service Dress - probably early 1939 - with Mum]]
+[[File:Dad_in_Service_Dress_with_Mum.jpg|500pg|centre|thumb|Dad wearing Service Dress - early 1939 - with Mum]]
 [[File:Dad_in_Battledress_post-Dunkirk.jpg|500pg|right|thumb|Dad in battledress - post Dunkirk]]
-[[File:Dad_fishing_in_Iceland_1941.jpg|500pg|left|thumb|Dad fishing in Iceland 1941]]
+[[File:Dad_fishing_in_Iceland_1941.jpg|500pg|left|thumb|Dad fishing, probably for sea trout, in Iceland 1941]]
-[[File:Dad_at_Rehab_Unit.jpg|500pg|centre|thumb|Dad at Rehabilitation Unit post-War]]
+[[File:Dad_at_Rehab_Unit.jpg|500pg|centre|thumb|Dad at Rehabilitation Unit - possibly post-War]]

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 |Army number=4455504
 |Rank=Private.
-|Promotion=Lance Corporal.
+|Promotions=Lance Corporal.
 |Date of birth=01-Aug-20
 |Age=77 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted 8th Durham Light Infantry, T, 2/5/39.  Posted to the 8th Battalion.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI 1/9/39.  Attached to 70th Brigade HQ 1/9/1939.  Served B.E.F.  Evacuated via Dunkirk.  Served Iceland.  Posted to Permanent Staff No. 4 ITC 13/11/42.  Posted No. 4 ITC 10/6/44.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 1946.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial, 2/5/39.  Posted to the 8th Battalion DLI.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 1/9/39 on embodiment.  Attached to 70th Brigade HQ 1/9/1939.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.  Evacuated via Dunkirk.  Served Iceland.  Posted to the Permanent Staff of No. 4 ITC 13/11/42.  Posted No. 4 ITC 10/6/44.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 1946.
-|Company/Battery=Brigade Headquarters.  No 4 Infantry Training Centre - MT Section.
+|Company/Battery=Brigade Headquarters.  No 4 Infantry Training Centre.
-|Platoon or other sub-unit=Motor Transport Section of Brigade HQ.  MT Section of No 4 ITC.
+|Platoon or other sub-unit=Motor Transport Section of Brigade HQ.  Motor Transport Section of No 4 Infantry Training Centre.
 |Task or role=Driver/Orderly (Internal Combustion).  Personal Driver to Brigadier Kirkup Sept 1939 - July 1942.  Driving Instructor at ITC.
 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
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 |Image Name=Cpldixon.jpg
 |Image Title=L/Cpl Dixon R B with Major Roper - Brigade Major
-|Wounded=Hit with shrapnel in the 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 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.
+|Wounded=Hit with shrapnel in the 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 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, when the Brigadier was posted to duties in Cairo, and was not allowed to go to Normandy with the Brigade, despite his attempts to do so.
 |Home address=Married Hannah Quinn 23/9/1944 at St John's Church, Quebec, County Durham.
 |Died/Killed in action=3/6/1998.

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 |Surname and forenames=Dixon Robert Bagnall
 |Army number=4455504
-|Rank=Pte
+|Rank=Private.
-|Promotion=L/Cpl
+|Promotion=Lance Corporal.
 |Date of birth=01-Aug-20
-|Age=0
+|Age=77 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted 8th Durham Light Infantry, T, 2/5/39.  Posted 11th Bn DLI 1/9/39.  Attached to 70th Brigade HQ 1/9/1939.  Served B.E.F.  Evacuated via Dunkirk.  Served Iceland.  Posted to Permanent Staff No. 4 ITC 13/11/42.  Posted No. 4 ITC 10/6/44.  Class Z Army Reserve 1946.
+|Unit=Enlisted 8th Durham Light Infantry, T, 2/5/39.  Posted to the 8th Battalion.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI 1/9/39.  Attached to 70th Brigade HQ 1/9/1939.  Served B.E.F.  Evacuated via Dunkirk.  Served Iceland.  Posted to Permanent Staff No. 4 ITC 13/11/42.  Posted No. 4 ITC 10/6/44.  Relegated to the 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.
+|Platoon or other sub-unit=Motor Transport Section of Brigade HQ.  MT Section of No 4 ITC.
 |Task or role=Driver/Orderly (Internal Combustion).  Personal Driver to Brigadier Kirkup Sept 1939 - July 1942.  Driving Instructor at ITC.
 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
 |Prisoner of War=No.
 |Source table=11DLI

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 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
 |Promotions=L/Cpl.
 |Source table=11DLI
 |Image Name=Cpldixon.jpg

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 |Image Name=Cpldixon.jpg
 |Image Title=L/Cpl Dixon R B with Major Roper - Brigade Major
-|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.
+|Wounded=Hit with shrapnel in the 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 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.
 |Home address=Married Hannah Quinn 23/9/1944 at St John's Church, Quebec, County Durham.
 |Died/Killed in action=3/6/1998.

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 |Died/Killed in action=3/6/1998.
 }}
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 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Motor Transport Section of HQ.
 |Task or role=Personal Driver to Brigadier Kirkup Sept 1939 - July 1942.  Driving Instructor.
 |Promotions=L/Cpl
 |Source table=11DLI
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 |Wounded=hit with shrapnel in the left wrist while engaged in evacuating wounded from 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.
 |Home address=Married 23/9/1944.
-|Died/Killed in Action=3/6/1998.
+|Died/Killed in action=3/6/1998.
 }}
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