Current Information:

Age-34

Military Medal

Born-Kingston

By the end of September, 1918, the Germans were in retreat all along the Western Front. In Flanders, the 41st Division were in action in the southern part of the Ypres salient and on 28th September 11th Royal West Surrey (Queens) battalion of 123 Brigade moved forward via Voormezeele to Klein Zillebeke ready to lend support to an attack on the Wervicq-Comines railway the following day by the other battalions of the brigade. They moved forward at 5.30am on 29th September in the face of considerable machine-gun and shell fire and established a support line behind the 10th Royal West Kent and 23rd Middlesex battalions. The attack however failed to secure its objectives and during the afternoon these two battalions fell back and the position held by 11th Queens became the new front line. One of the casualties suffered by 11th Queens on this day was Archibald Dixon.