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South Africa / Re: General Sir John Nixon
« on: Saturday 27 December 08 16:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the message.  I'm out of country at the moment and so can't get into my database until 13th January.  I am trying to get details about Charles Nixon to.  I wonder if we know each other as the name Vincent is familiar.

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South Africa / Re: General Sir John Nixon
« on: Friday 28 November 08 12:11 GMT (UK)  »
Cecil Amy Nixon was the daughter of Maj.-Gen. John Piggot Nixon, not John Eccles Nixon.

Charles Piggot Nixon had 2 sons and 1 daughter - john Piggot Nixon b. 17 Mar 1903, Platon Piggot Nixon 14 Feb 1907 - 23 May 1985, Norah Piggot Nixon b. 21 Jan 1904.

I have more info on John Piggot Nixon and Ellen Sophia Cooper.

I can trace the Nixons back to 1600 with over 10,000 names on my database.  Let me know if you want to know anything else.

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South Africa / Re: General Sir John Nixon
« on: Tuesday 25 November 08 11:09 GMT (UK)  »
A potted history of General Sir John Eccles Nixon K.C.B., G.C.M.G.
16 Aug 1857 born at Brentford, Middlesex, England
1875 Enlisted into the British Army
10 Sep 1857 Sub Lt. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
02 Sep 1878 Lt. Bengal Staff Corps
1879 Served in the Afghan War 1878-80
1881 Zaimusht Expedition and capture of Zawa
1881 Mentioned in despatches and medal
1881 Mahsud Waziri Expedition
18 Aug 1884 Married Amy Louise Wilson
1885 Daughter Cecil Amy Nixon b.
10 Sep 1886 Capt. Indian Staff Corps
24 Apr 1889 Son Adrian Leonard Nixon b.
1895 Chitral Relief Force
1895 Deputy Assistant-Quarter-Master-General Intelligence Branch
1895 Storming of the Malakand Pass
1895 Action near Khar at the descent into the Swat Valley
10 Sep 1895 Major
15 Nov 1895 Mentioned in despatches.  Medal with clasp
22 Jan 1896 Lt. Col.
1897 North West Frontier 1897-8
11 Feb 1898 Mentioned in despatches, clasp
12 Mar 1899 Col.
1901 South African War 1901-2. Commanded a Calvary Brigade
26 Jun 1902 Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
01 May 1903 Brigadier
01 May 1903 Assistant-Quarter-Master-General, India
12 Jan 1904 Major-General
1906 Inspector-General of Cavalry, India
1909 Lieutenant-General
19 jun 1911 Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
1914 General
1919 Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George
15 Dec 1921 Died at St. Raphaël, France

The above information has been collated from "The Families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh" written by The Rev. Henry Biddal Swanzy 1908, Birth Register, family information and from a project run by Stanford University, U.S.A.

He was my 3C3R

There is an article in Wikipedia (if you trust the source) and a biography at http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/nixon.htm

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