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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 155

(x) Pair: Private J. F. Dix, Royal Fusiliers, late King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action at Maricourt on 29 August 1918, in the face of 'stubborn' enemy resistance

British War and Victory Medals (34908 Pte. J. F. Dix. K.R.R.C.), extremely fine (2)

James Francis Dix was born in 1881 in Middlesex, the son of James and Frances Dix. He married Ida Louise Love at St. Jude's, Gray's Inn Road, on Christmas Day 1907, and the couple had a daughter, Ida Francis - who sadly died in early infancy.

Dix enlisted on 8 December 1916 and initially served with the 8th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Decimated in the German Spring Offensive of March 1918, Operation Michael reduced the Battalion to cadre strength by 27 April 1918 - it was disbanded on 1 August 1918. Posted to the 2/4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Dix fought across the old Somme battlefields and through 'Happy Valley'. On 29 August 1918 his Battalion carried the line forward against an ever increasing opposition east of Maurepas, and it was at this time that Dix was posted missing in action, later confirmed as killed. He is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial; sold with copied research and an attractive Ancient Order of Foresters Merit Medal, silver, suspended on an ornate silk neck ribbon, reverse engraved 'Court "Earl of Warwick" No. 2465 Presented to Bro. J. F. Dix. P.C.R. for services as C.R. A Second Time. 1909.'


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