Name
Charlie Dawson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
524546
Royal Engineers
237th Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Note: Read Bertie Dawson (Charlie’s brother) for more details of the family’s tragedies relating to their father and their brother Reginald. Read Harry Dawson (1) (Charlie’s uncle) for other difficult family circumstances.
Charlie appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. He was the son of Edgar and Elizabeth Jane Dawson (née Reynolds) and, in 1901, they lived in Ann Reynolds’ house (Elizabeth’s mother), which was 2 Holly Cottages, Little Green - now in Hambridge Way. In all it would appear that two brothers served and survived - refer to Bertie Dawson for more family details.
Charlie enlisted in 1916 and the Hertfordshire Express of April 13th 1918 reports him as convalescing in the Maples Hospital, Hitchin, having been wounded in the arms and leg during July 1917, while serving in the Royal Engineers in France.
By 1918 he was recorded as Sapper 524546, 237th Field Company, Royal Engineers with his home address as ‘around’ Little Lane.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
