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Herbert Gwydor Rix

Male 1898 - 1918  (20 years)


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  • Name Herbert Gwydor Rix 
    Birth 1898  Warialda, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Name Dawson Rix 
    Miltary Service Between 1914 and 1918 
    35th Bat, Australian Infantry 
    Service Number Between 1914 and 1918 
    Private 6821 
    Death 29 Aug 1918  France and Flanders Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Private DAWSON RIX

      6821, 35th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
      who died age 19
      on Thursday 29 August 1918.
      Private RIX, Son of Robert and the late Mary Rix; brother of S. Rix, of Warialda Railway, New South Wales.

      Remembered with honour
      DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
      The preparations for the Somme offensive of July 1916 brought a group of casualty clearing stations (the 1st/1st South Midland, 21st, 34th, 45th and Lucknow, section " B " ) to Daours. The extension to the communal cemetery was opened and the first burials made in Plots I , II, Row A of Plot III and the Indian plot, between June and November 1916. The Allied advance in the spring of 1917 took the hospitals with it, and no further burials were made in the cemetery until April 1918, when the Germans recovered the ground they had lost. From April to the middle of August 1918, the extension was almost a front line cemetery. In August and September 1918, the casualty clearing stations came forward again (the 5th, 37th, 41st, 53rd, 55th and 61st) but in September, the cemetery was closed. There are now 1,231 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Daours Communal Cemetery Extension. The total includes special memorials to four men of the Chinese labour corps whose graves in White Chateau Cemetery, Cachy, could not be located. The adjoining communal cemetery contains two First World War burials made before the extension was opened. The extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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    Person ID I5599  bolstridge
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2023 

    Father Robert Rix,   b. 1842, Elsing, Norfork, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1904, Warialda, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mary Ann Bolstridge,   b. 29 Jan 1853, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1871  Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F486  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1898 - Warialda, New South Wales, Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 29 Aug 1918 - France and Flanders Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S243] Information provided by Lyn Gardiner.