Dixon, Wyatt Thomas

• 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)