Name: Cedric Wilson Dixon Rank: 7th Engineer Service: MV Inverdargle (Glasgow, Scotland) Canadian Merchant Navy Date of Birth: May 7, 1919 Place of Birth: Sackville, New Brunswick Address at Enlistment: Liverpool, Nova Scotia Next of Kin: Alice Dixon (Mother) Liverpool, NS Date of Death: January 16, 1940 Age: 20 Memorial: Halifax Memorial Reference: Panel 17. Commemorated on Page 126 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on March 15, and August 12 Cedric Wilson Dixon was the son of Garfield Arthur Dixon (1890–1965) and Alice Hazel (Lund) Dixon (1890–1960). The family were living in Liverpool, Nova Scotia when Cedric joined the Merchant Navy. His brother Carman Garfield Dixon (1915-1943) served with the RCAF. Sergeant Carman Dixon died while serving at RCAF Station Yarmouth the result of a drowning accident. The family were originally from Sackville, New Brunswick. Cedric Dixon was serving at 7th Engineer on the MV Inverdargle en route to Avonmouth in the United Kingdom from Trinidad via Halifax transporting 12 tons of Aviation fuel. On January 16, 1940, at 4:19 pm the Inverdargle struck a mine in the Bristol Channel south-west of Nash Point laid down by the German U-boat-33. The ship exploded, broke in half and sank with the loss of the Captain and 48 crew members. Dedric Dixon was the only Canadian crew member. He is remembered on the Halifax Memorial and on the family grave marker in the Sackville Cemetery, Sackville New Brunswick.

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