BORN HULL 1885. SON OF MARTHA PARKINSON & THE LATE JAMES ALFRED SMITH (1860-1912), AT 70, BRIGHTON STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL AND 5, MARGARET TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 16/12/1914. DESCRIBED AT 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 139 LBS WEIGHT, 34-36 INCH CHEST AND GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. TRAINED AT BEVERLEY AND RIPON. JOINED THE 13TH HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WOUNDED WITH SHELL SHOCK, ON 15/07/1916. WOUNDED AGAIN AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916. DIED FROM WOUNDS TO ABDOMEN AND CHEST, AT THE ADVANCED OPERATING CENTRE, ON 15/11/1916, AGED 31. HE IS BURIED AT COUIN BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER MARTHA, BROTHER GEORGE AND SISTER, LUCY.
First name:
JOSEPH LAWSON
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/229
Rank:
Private
Date Died
15/11/1916
Place died:
Couin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
31
5, MARGARET TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
