Serjeant 2211099 Herbert Horace Dixon

BMD details:
Name: Herbert Horace Dixon - Baptism Date: 19 Apr 1911 - Parish: Ravenhead - Father: Herbert Dixon - Mother: Hannah M Dixon Reference Number: Pr 3408/1/7 Marriage: 2nd Qtr 1935 Herbert H Dixon to Eva Wills at Prescot, Lancashire. Vol 8b - Page 1611.

Family details:
Son of Herbert James Dixon and Hannah Maria Dixon; husband of Ena Dixon, of Rainhill, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. 28 years old Herbert H Dixon born 01/04/1911 a Braider Attending Battery Of Auto Machine Electric Cable Maker and wife Eva Millington (Dixon) born 29/04/1913 an Unpaid Domestic are living at 59 Chatsworth Road, Whiston. There are no family members in the household redacted.

[center][pic2]imgs/sppics/576_Crest.jpg[/pic2][/center] [pic]imgs/sppics/lancaster_3.jpg[/pic] On the 12/13th May 1944, Avro Lancaster Mark 3, (Serial number ND403) Took off on a training mission. Base: Elsham Woods, Lincolnshire. His crew had recently joined the squadron from the heavy bomber conversion unit and before joining operational sorties were flying a night navigational and bombing exercise to sharpen up their skills when, tragically their aircraft, an Avro Lancaster Mk III, recognition code UL-G2, serial number ND403, went missing without trace. He is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial. The Crew of ND403 were:- Pilot Officer J Parkinson, age 22, of Hoylake, Cheshire. Sergeant AF Raymond, age21, of Felsted. Flight Sergeant E Johnson, age 21, of Brighton. Sergeant GE Wilson, age 25, of Matlock, Derbyshire. Sergeant KC Mant, age 20, of Luton, Bedfordshire. Sergeant HH Dixon, age 33, of Rainhill, Lancashire. Sergeant A Eland, of Washington County Durham. [pic]imgs/sppics/runnymede228.jpg[/pic][caption]Herbert is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial (Picture by PaulC)[/caption]