Name
Albert Dawson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Albert appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish records suggest only one man of this name who could have served, and he was born on November 21st 1887 to Samuel and Lavinia Dawson (née Pitts). He would have been twenty-six at the outbreak of war. Baptism records list four children: Herbert Charles (b 1880), Emily (b 1881), George (b 1885) and Albert (b 1887), but the 1911 census records that they had six, of whom one had died. At that time, Albert was still living with his parents near the Blacksmith’s Arms, which was in the High Street, opposite where the Blacksmith’s pond remains to this day. He was twenty-three and like his father was working as an agricultural labourer on one of the local farms.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
