Dawson, Herbert

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN DAWSON (1848-1904) & MARY ANN DAWSON, OF 54 WALCOTT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER. HIS FIANCEE WAS LILLY. LIVED WITH BROTHER, WILLIAM, AT 56 WALCOTT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). A GROCER’S ASSISTANT AND FORMER 5TH EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIAL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 11/12/1915, AGED 25 YEARS AND 1 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 139 LBS WEIGHT, 35 INCH CHEST. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 22/12/1916. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. PROMOTED TO LANCE CORPORAL. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 08/08/1917, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY ANN. THEY INCLUDED, PHOTOS, CARDS, PURSE, DENTURES, CIGARETTE LIGHTER AND PAPERS, MIRROR, DIARY, WRIST WATCH, SCISSORS, INK PELLET CASE AND FOUNTAIN PEN.
HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM, AT DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN”