WINTON BAPTIST CHURCH (Parrin Lane)
Jan 18, 2012 18:44:34 GMT
Post by shred on Jan 18, 2012 18:44:34 GMT
George Dixon
Name: DIXON
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Lancashire Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 04/06/1915
Service No: 2714
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. B. 84.
Cemetery: TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY
Birth Place: Pendleton, Lancs
Residence: Monton, Lancs
Death Location: Gallipoli
Enlistment Location: Manchester
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Balkan Theatre
In 1911 George was living with his family at 25 Parrin Lane, Monton, Eccles. His occupation at this time is shown to be a cotton mill labourer.
Father - William Thoms
Mother - Mary Elizabeth
Siblings - Beatrice, Marion, Rosaline, Edith, May and Doris.
Disembarked at Gallipoli on the 2nd June 1915, George was killed just two days later. He was entitled to the 1915 Star, Victory and British medals.
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 28 April, following the landings at Helles, the first attack was mounted towards Achi Baba, the ridge which dominates the southern part of the peninsula. Fatigue, however, brought the assault to a halt some kilometres short of the objective, near the village of Krithia. Turkish counter attacks followed but were repulsed and during the period 6-8 May, the 29th and French Divisions, reinforced by the 2nd Australian and New Zealand Infantry Brigades, carried out a renewed attack on Krithia, making some gains but suffering heavy casualties. Between 1 May and the beginning of June, the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade and 42nd (East Lancashire) Division landed on the peninsula. With these reinforcements, the Allied force at Helles pushed forward once more on 4 June, but again to little effect. A further attack between 28 June and 5 July at Gully Ravine inflicted heavy casualties on the Turks, but despite local gains - at one point the line was pushed forward more than a kilometre - there was no breakthrough. By 13 July the advance at Helles was effectively over and the position remained unchanged until the evacuation in January 1916.
Name: DIXON
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Lancashire Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 04/06/1915
Service No: 2714
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. B. 84.
Cemetery: TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY
Birth Place: Pendleton, Lancs
Residence: Monton, Lancs
Death Location: Gallipoli
Enlistment Location: Manchester
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Balkan Theatre
In 1911 George was living with his family at 25 Parrin Lane, Monton, Eccles. His occupation at this time is shown to be a cotton mill labourer.
Father - William Thoms
Mother - Mary Elizabeth
Siblings - Beatrice, Marion, Rosaline, Edith, May and Doris.
Disembarked at Gallipoli on the 2nd June 1915, George was killed just two days later. He was entitled to the 1915 Star, Victory and British medals.
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 28 April, following the landings at Helles, the first attack was mounted towards Achi Baba, the ridge which dominates the southern part of the peninsula. Fatigue, however, brought the assault to a halt some kilometres short of the objective, near the village of Krithia. Turkish counter attacks followed but were repulsed and during the period 6-8 May, the 29th and French Divisions, reinforced by the 2nd Australian and New Zealand Infantry Brigades, carried out a renewed attack on Krithia, making some gains but suffering heavy casualties. Between 1 May and the beginning of June, the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade and 42nd (East Lancashire) Division landed on the peninsula. With these reinforcements, the Allied force at Helles pushed forward once more on 4 June, but again to little effect. A further attack between 28 June and 5 July at Gully Ravine inflicted heavy casualties on the Turks, but despite local gains - at one point the line was pushed forward more than a kilometre - there was no breakthrough. By 13 July the advance at Helles was effectively over and the position remained unchanged until the evacuation in January 1916.
