Captain Hubert Bradshaw Dixon

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born Manchester, son William Pitt and Martha Dixon, Thornbridge Cottage, Great Longstone, Derbyshire. He was educated at Retford College, Nottinghamshire and commissioned to the Derbyshire Regiment in 1899. By 1901 he was a Lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters and he served in the South African war 1899-1902, for which he was awarded the Queen’s Medal and 4 Clasps. At the outbreak of the Great War, he was a student at the staff college at Quetta (now Pakistan). He then proceeded to France with the 1st Battalion 5th November 1914. He was mentioned in despatches in 1915 and was killed during a German attack on the British trenches at Nerve Chapel 12th March 1915, aged 36.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

Captain Hubert Bradshaw Dixon is also commemorated on the following war memorials:-
Great Longstone, War Memorial, Derbyshire.
Christ Church Cathedral College War Memorial Oxford, Oxfordshire.
St Giles Church, Great Longstone memorial plaque, Derbyshire.