17 BACK FINISHER Arnold Cecil Dixon MBE – LOYAL CLUB MAN AND ARTILLERY COMMANDER

Arnold Cecil Dixon was born in Sunderland in 1909 and died in Harbottle, Northumberland in 1988. He was away in the early 1930s and played at Waterloo – then a top club. On his return he became a star three quarters and captained both the SRFC 1^st XV and the county. He was in a third generation of the family to be involved in the club and continued after the war as a tireless administrator for the whole sports club. His father Arnold Dixon was a coal merchant and ship broker and the family lived in Belle Vue Drive in ACD’s youth. He married in 1940. In August 1945 he was in Germany when he was promoted lieutenant colonel in the Royal Artillery and was awarded the Territorial Decoration.  By then his home was in Thornhill Terrace. He was awarded the MBE in 1946 for  ‘gallant and distinguished service in north west Europe’. His unit went through France and Germany attached to the DLI territorials as a light anti-aircraft unit.

112 (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA (TA) - The Royal Artillery 1939-45 

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