Private Thomas Lawson of Lockington (1872-1916) of Lockington

Thomas Lawson was born in Lockington in 1872, the third son of John and Eliza Lawson.

Prior to the war, in 1891, Thomas was a gunner in The Royal Artillery in Wales but left Britain altogether and enrolled in the United States Army. He served in the U.S.A for four years before turning up in Canada in Conquest, Saskatchewan. It was there that, on 8 November 1915, he joined the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles

Thomas Lawson was killed in action sometime between 28 September1916 and 2 October 1916 when, according to the Battalion war diary, they were under constant attack and took heavy casualties. He is buried in Regina Trench Cemetery at Grandcourt, France.