Kenneth Dixon was born on 6th February 1896 at Leeds, one of seven children born to George Edward Dixon and Margaret Brewis Dixon. Tragically, Margaret died ten days after giving birth to Kenneth and his twin brother, Eric.
The 1911 Census records Kenneth living with his father, his step-mother, Emily, and three brothers at Ivy Dene, The Drive, Roundhay.
At the outbreak of war, Kenneth joined the Leeds University Officer Training Corps from which, on 6th October 1915, he was granted a commission in the West Riding Regiment. Kenneth joined the British Expeditionary Force in France as a second lieutenant on 22nd September 1916 and was posted to the regiment's 7th Battalion.
7th West Riding went into the line at Foncquevillers on 23rd November 1916. On the 25th, a day of heavy rain, the battalion's D Company was shelled: Kenneth was fatally wounded, dying of his wounds on the same day. He was buried in Couin British Cemetery.
Although Kenneth Dixon was not among the local men commemorated in the Pannal Memorial Institute, he is included on the memorial in St. Robert's Church, Pannal. His connection to the village appears to be through his siblings, two of whom had married into the Conyers family of Pannal. On 25th August 1909, Kenneth's older sister, Margaret Ethel, married Penrhyn Stanley Conyers at St. Robert's Church, while on 27th August 1914, the church witnessed the marriage of an older brother, Henry, to Marjorie Conyers.