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Carmen Garfield Dixon
Carman Garfield Dixon
Sergeant
R/50089
Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAF Station, Yarmouth NS
February 20, 1915
Cookville, Westmorland Co., NB
November 4, 1939
Halifax, NS
Liverpool, NS
Labourer
Married
United Church
Marjorie Dixon (wife) Lakeburn, NB
April 15, 1943
28
Sackville Rural Cemetery, NB
Plot 00 Lot 11
Commemorated on page 153 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on March 31
Carman Garfield Dixon was the son of Garfield Arthur Dixon (1890–1965) and Alice Hazel (Lund)
Dixon (1890–1960) , of Liverpool, NS and husband of Marjorie Starr (Freeman) Dixon, of Lakeburn, New
Brunswick. He was the father of Leslie Stuart (b. June 18, 1937) and Carmen Dale (b. June 20, 1942).
The family lived in Yarmouth, NS when Sergeant Dixon was posted at RCAF Station Yarmouth.
Carmen was the brother of Cedric Wilson Dixon, 7th Engineer on the S.S. Inverdargle, Canadian
Merchant Navy who was lost at sea when his ship was torpedoed with the loss of all crew on January 16,
1940.
Following his enlistment, Sergeant Dixon was stationed at Toronto, Ottawa and Moncton. He was
first posted to RCAF Yarmouth on March 24, 1942 and served as an equipment assistant.
Sergeant Dixon died of accidental drowning in the Chebogue River on April 15, 1943. His body was
recovered on May 29, 1943.
Burial Cross 1943