Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- J A Dixon -

Name

John Arthur Glanville ("Glan") Dixon, son of Richard Corless Dixon and Mahala Dixon, of Cowes, Isle of Wight.
 
Glan Dixon is commemorated on these Memorials :

East Cowes War Memorial
Cowes War Memorial

Service details

Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) 1602182 J A Dixon, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

Date of Death :	28 June 1944 aged 21
Where buried or commemorated :	Bransles Communal Cemetery
Squadron :	106 Sqn
Aircraft :	Avro Lancaster Mk.III JB664 ZN-N
Crew :
Pilot :	P/O N W Easby	CWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :	Sgt E P Richomme	CWGC record ...
Navigator :	F/Sgt A Robinson	CWGC record ...
Wireless Operator :	Sgt G A Collison	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Sgt L K Webb	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Sgt D Hetherington	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off at 22:55 hrs from RAF Metheringham to bomb a rail yard at Vitry, France. It crashed 2 km East of Bransles, Seine-et-Marne. All the crew were buried in a collective grave in the village Cemetery. Sergeant Dixon came from Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Information provided by : John Bloodworth