Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the only son of Edwin and Nellie Agnes Dixon. He died at Rouen from the wounds he received during the Battle of the Somme. On the 31st January 1920 the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester published a Roll of Honour of former pupils, this records that Claude attended the school between the years 1908 and 1913. The War Diary for today records. ARRAS. The Companies changed billets as follows. ½ Company of A Company occupied NICHOLLS REDOUBT. ½ of A and C Companies occupied cellars under BISHOP’S PALACE. B and D Companies occupied the nunnery in cellars. Battalion HQ occupied Hotel L’UNIVERS.
