Arthur Wesley DIXON [????-1928]
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Submitted by David on Tue, 2012-06-05 21:41
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
1900s: Benicek writes that he was:
Captain AW Dixon aboard the paddle steamer SS Sainam. Dixon also served as captain of SS Fatshan. A newspaper article I found online describes a pirate attack on the Sainam, in 1906, which Dixon was seriously wounded. I have uploaded them here:
http://flic.kr/p/c8ZAW3
The 1909 & 1910 Jurors lists describe him as Manager of Holt & Co., living at 36 Caine Road.
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Captain AW Dixon - date and place of death.
A notice in the London Gazette reports that Arthur Wesley Dixon died on 29th August 1928 and gives his address as Holt's Wharf, Shanghai, China.
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33453/pages/106/page.pdf