BORN WINTERINGHAM, LINCS. SON OF THOMAS DAWSON (1851-1908), AND CECILIA TRIPP (1856-1942), OF WINTERINGHAM, LINCS. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER, WALTER. EMPLOYED AS A BUTCHER. HE MARRIED ANNIE OGLESBY (1883-1974), AT GLANFORD, IN 1909. THY LIVED AT 16 QUEEN STREET, BARTON AND HAD TWO SONS, THOMAS AND HARRY.
HE ENLISTED AT SCUNTHORPE, LINCS. SERVED IN THE 1ST NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED ON 23/09/1917, AGED 31. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. HE LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS AND £196 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, ANNIE. HE IS LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 30/10/1917.
HIS ONLY BROTHER, WALTER (1889-1955), WAS WOUNDED AND DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY, ON 17/07/1917 (SILVER BADGE NO: 135128)
First name:
HAROLD WILLIAM
Military Number:
36848
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/09/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
31
16 QUEEN STREET, BARTON UPON HUMBER, , NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
