Hugo Dixon Wartime Diaries Now Archived on Shelby County Register Website

"Hugo Norton Dixon (1892-1974) is known to the Mid-South community as a philanthropist, arts supporter, and the founder of The Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. But in 1914, in the weeks following the outbreak of World War I in Europe, Hugo Dixon was a 22-year-old British national living in Bremen, Germany, who worked for the American cotton company, Geo. H. McFadden. Dixon wrote a journal that told the story of the war’s early days. Although the journal was written in 1916, it describes the period that followed German mobilization in August, 1914, and how that event affected the lives of those British citizens caught in Germany at the outbreak of the war.