William Dixon was born in 1885. In 1911 he and his wife Margaret, just married, were living at 11a West View, Wrekenton. William was a hewer.

On 19th November 1914 he joined the Gateshead Reserve Company as a driver, number T/951. When he enlisted they lived at Wakes Yard, Wrekenton. He became number T4/250211 in the Royal Army Service Corps, 664th Company.

He was posted on 1st September 1916 and went to Salonika on 3rd January 1917. He was demobbed at Woolwich on 5th April 1919, described as sick and wounded. He was buried at St Thomas' Eighton Banks on 7th October 1920. Margaret had to raise three children, two boys and a girl, on a widow’s pension. The youngest had been born on 12th December 1919. William Dixon is remembered on the cross in the churchyard but not on the plaque in the nave.

He is remembered in Eighton Banks on E50.01

There is no entry for Driver Dixon on the CWGC records.