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Surname: DAWSON
Forename(s): Lewis
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire
Service No: 9813
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Battalion / Unit: 6th (Service) Battalion
Division: 9th (Scottish) Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1915-09-25
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: I. E. 4.
CWGC Cemetery: ZOUAVE VALLEY CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Lewis Dawson was the son of George and Elizabeth Eleanor Dawson, née West. George was born at Leeds and Elizabeth at Goole, Yorkshire.
1891 Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire Census: 12, Lascelles Road - Lewis Dawson, aged 7 years, born Potternewton, son of George and Elizabeth Eleanor Dawson.
1901 Potternewton, Leeds, Yorkshire Census: 12, Lascelles Road - Lewis Dawson, aged 17 years, born Leeds, son of George and Elizabeth E. Dawson.
1911 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland Census: The Parade - Corporal Lewis Dawson, aged 25 years, born Leeds, Yorkshire.
Lewis was married to Mabel May Erswell in 1911. Mabel married George Bruce Jamieson in 1917.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Sjt Lewis Dawson, 9813, 6/K. O. Sco. Bord. Theatre of War first served in: 1 - France. Date of entry therein: 12.5.15. K. in A. 25.9.15.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Sgt Lewis Dawson, 9813, 6th K.O.S.B
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Acting Company Sgt Maj Lewis Dawson, 9813. 6th Bn K.O.S.B's. Date and Place of Death: 25.9.15. In action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Mabel. £20 0s. 4d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Lewis. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Mabel May Dawson, born 21.1.93. Address: 12, Lascelles Road, Roundhay Road, Leeds. Widow was remarried on 23.7.17 to 9/1692, Bruce George Jamieson, Pte, Otago Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Lewis was killed in action during the Battle of Loos, 25 September-8 October. He is commemorated on the Berwick-Upon-Tweed War Memorial and in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh. He is also commemorated on a memorial in St Peter’s Churchyard, Hebden. His link to Hebden was found by John Gardner of Hebden who supplied the following information: Violet Dawson, sister of Lewis, was living at High Dene, Hebden, in 1911 with her Aunt Jane - probably the 'Jane' on the memorial. She appears to have inherited the house when her aunt died in 1929, and was still living there, as a spinster, in 1939.
Data Source: Memorial Inscription on Family Gravestone
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 9th (Scottish) Division
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