William Joseph Dixey
Employed as a progress worker at Ransome & Marles.
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CWGC: Husband of Selena Reynolds Dixey, of 65 Bowbridge Road. Died at Ransome and Marles, Beacon Hill.
CWGC: Buried or commemorated Newark on Trent, Municipal Borough
Newark Advertiser, ‘Deaths’. 12 March 1941: ‘Dixey. William Joseph, the dearly loved husband of Selena Dixey, and devoted father of Evelyn, Reg., and Harold.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
Newark Advertiser, 11 March 1942: ‘Lest We Forget. A sincere Tribute from all Progress Workers to the Memory of William Dixey, Larry Senior, Winifred Cooper and Vivian Castle, who lost their lives through enemy action on Friday March 7th, 1941. We Will Remember Them.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
www.ransomeandmarles.co.uk (extract): ‘Founded in Newark, UK, in 1900, Ransome and Marles, or R & M Bearings as many people know it, soon became the leading British manufacturer of Ball and Roller bearings. Their reputation for quality gained them world-wide acceptance in Aerospace, Defence and precision engineering environments.’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-35725950 (extract) ‘The 75th anniversary of an air raid on a factory that played an important part in the World War Two effort is being marked.The Ransome & Marles bearings factory in Newark, Nottinghamshire, was so vital it was rebuilt in three weeks. The air raid on 7 March 1941 resulted in the deaths of 41 people and left 165 badly wounded. But many details were censored at the time and have only been uncovered in recent years.’ (6 March 2016)
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