Linda Gowans has submitted the following:-
John Dixon Ogleby was born in Sunderland on October 13th 1888, six years before his brother Albert Victor. Though the CWGC notice gives no family information, the 1911 census shows John, a single man with the trade of House Plumber, at home with his parents William and Elizabeth and seven siblings (including Albert Victor) at 24 Pallion Road.
John enlisted on November 23rd, 1914, at 26 years 1 month. He is described as a Labourer, 5' 4" tall. His first period of service was as 16733, Yorkshire Regiment, with whom he embarked for Egypt on October 26th 1915.
John left Alexandria on June 25th 1916, disembarking at Marseilles on July 2nd and transferring to 11th Bn. DLI on the 20th. On September 20th 1916 he received wounds to his chest and right arm, and was sent to England by ship from Rouen on October 11th. From October 13th to December 28th he was in 4th Scottish General Hospital, Glasgow, at which date he was declared ‘Almost healed’ and sent to an auxiliary hospital.
We know that on May 31st 1917 he was at Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, for he was deducted two days’ pay for overstaying his Pass from midnight until 6 pm. He returned to France in June, transferring in October to the 19th Battalion. His health record in subsequent months was poor, including being gassed and suffering from bronchitis, but he re-joined his Battalion on May 2nd 1918.
On June 14th 1918 he was killed in action. There appears to be no record of the specific engagement, but this was at the time of the German Spring Offensive, when there was fighting around the already devastated town of Albert, with an Allied attack on the village of Bouzincourt, 3 km. north-west, later in June. He seems to have been buried near to where he fell, as his body was exhumed on March 13th 1919, and reburied at Bouzincourt. In that year, his parents were required to sign declarations listing family members: their four daughters were still living but only two sons, for the war had cost them both Albert Victor and John Dixon.
John Dixon Ogleby is remembered at Sunderland on S140.009, S140.010 and S140.048 part 2
He is also remembered in The DLI Book of Remembrance page 151
