Dixon, Wyatt Thomas

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Active 1881
Active 1971

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1894, Oct. 27 Born, Durham, N.C. 1917, July 25 Called into service for the United States Army, 30th Division, 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, Durham, N.C. Dixon made Company Clerk. 1917, Sept. 16 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, moved to Camp Sevier, S.C. 1918, May 19 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, moved to Camp Mills, Long Island, N.Y. 1918, May 27 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, departed for France on the [Armagh ?] 1918, June 7 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, landed in Liverpool, England; departed England on the Prince George 1918, June 13 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, arrived in La Havre, France 1918, Sept. 12 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, participated in the St. Michiel offensive 1918, Sept. 26 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, participated in the Meuse-Argonne campaign 1919, Jan. 14 113th Field Artillery, Battery C turned in their horses and supplies 1919, March 19 113th Field Artillery, Battery C, returned to United States, landed at Newport News, Va. 1919, June 1 1962 Writer and photographer for the Durham Morning Herald and The Durham Sun newspapers, Durham Herald Co., Durham, N.C. 1933 1986 Wrote weekly columns, Along the Battlefront about World War I and How Times Do Change about Durham, N.C., for The Durham Sun 1962 Retired from The Durham Sun, but continued to write "How Times Do Change" until 1986 1986, Jan. 1 Died, Durham, N.C.

From the guide to the Wyatt T. Dixon Papers, 1850s-1987, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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