Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- John Herbert Hollingsworth Dixon -

Leading Airman J.H. Dixon, Fleet Air Arm, son of Mrs. Dixon, Dudley Road, is home on leave, much to his own delight and that of his many friends. By a happy coincidence his brother Jim - a staff-sergeant in the R.A.M.C. - is on leave at the same time, and what is more interesting is the fact that the brothers met quite unexpectedly at Waterloo when on their homeward journey.
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Jack - as to whose extensive travels our readers have some knowledge, gained through the publication in this paper of letters he had written - was on an air-craft carrier which figures in the famous Malta convoy episode, and it is due to the fact that his ship was damaged that he has returned home at a time which, a few weeks ago was undreamed of. He has brought with him a wonderful collection of photographs of the many and varied places he has visited. The majority of these are his own work. In addition he has some striking pictures of the enemy attack on the Malta convoy.

Petty Officer Airman J.H. Dixon, son of Mrs. Dixon, of Vernon House, Dudley Road, Ventnor, sends interesting facts relating to the aircraft carrier and its company, of which he was a member, during a commission in 1941-2. In ten months the ship travelled 78,000 miles, which is approximately three times the distance round the world; the flying crews visited 22 airfields in 17 different countries and colonies; the ship engaged German, Italian, Vichy French and Japanese Forces in action; the ship's company ate 17 tons of bread; enemy aircraft shot down - 44 in one day; aircraft searched one million square miles; and the ship used 500,000 tons of oil, at £5 per ton.