Samuel Dix

Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 51861

Parents: Alfred and Ellen Dix

Marital status: Married

Home address: Blackhorse Road, Kingswood, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Coal Miner

Date of birth: 1879

Place of birth: Bitton, Bristol

Date of death: 18/10/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated at Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Age: 39

Further information:

Samuel was born in Bitton a middle child of eleven children with seven sisters and three brothers. His father was a coal miner and his mother, was a shoemaker. Samuel followed his father into mining and in 1901, married Beatrice Fuge, who was working as a business assistant. Their daughter Clarice was born in 1903. Samuel’s youngest brother Bertie was killed on active service 14 months before Samuel.

Samuel enlisted in 1914 and with the 1st Battalion, mobilised to France at the end of August 1914 where they fought in various actions on the Western Front including The Battle and Retreat from Mons, the Battles of Ypres, Loos and the Somme, the Battles of The Hindenburg Line and ultimately the final advance into Picardy. Samuel was killed in action during the final advance, in the Battle of the Selle (17–25 October 1918) less than four weeks before the armistice. His body was never identified and the Memorial where Samuel is remembered, bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/