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54th (East Anglian) Division, Army Service Corps
Robert Dixon was born on 22 August 1855 in Bocking, Essex, the son of William and Eliza Dixon. Robert married Ada Harvey in1884 in the Dunmow area and by 1891 they were living at 32 King Street in Sudbury. They had two children and later moved to Meadow Lane, before moving to 6 York Road.
In 1901 Robert was the manager of Portway & Company, Ironmongers in King Street, he later owned the business in partnership with his former assistant William Scott. The name Dixon Scott remained in the town until the 1990s. Today it is Huffers Café.
Robert first served in ‘a theatre of war’ on 2 September 1915. After his death his son Gerald applied for exemption as the firm had lost eight men and the Managing Director. Conditional exemption was given on the grounds that he had taken his father’s place in a ‘certified occupation and financial hardship’.
Robert died aged 60 on 16 November 1915 and lies buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Many casualties from Gallipoli were taken to the military hospital on Malta. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in January 2007 and November 2014.
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