This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Arthur James Rixon)
(Rixon, Arthur James)
Service no 590001
Company Serjeant Major, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), "A" Coy. 1st/18th Bn.
Died age 33 on 7 April 1917
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Rixon, of 1, Bonnington Square, South Lambeth; husband of May Rixon, of 81, Heyford Avenue, South Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, and at St Mark's Church, London
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 the Rixons lived at 1 Bonnington Square. James Rixon, 54, was an overseer at the Post Office. He was born in Faringdon, Berkshire. Susan Rixon, 51, was from Carbrook, Norfolk. They had 6 children, 5 of whom are on the census:
Arthur James, 27, a Post Office sorter, born in Westminster
James Chaston Rixon, 20, a telegraphist in the Post Office
Sidney Chaston Rixon, 17, a clerk
Frank Chaston Rixon, 14, a telegraph messenger for the Post Office
Harry Chaston Rixon, 7
All the children apart from James were born in Lambeth.