The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant C D N Lawson

Photograph by "Woose"

Second Lieutenant Cecil David Norton LAWSON, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Hulluch, Flanders, France, 26th September 1915, age 19.

Born 1895. Second Son of Hugh Lawson and Sarah Alice Lawson, of Camden Rise, Chislehurst, Kent.

1911 Census - Haileybury College, Haileybury, Hertford - Cecil David Norton Lawson, age 15, single, student, born Chislehurst, Kent.

1911 Census - Camden Rise, Chislehurst, Kent - Hugh Lawson, head, age 47, married, medical General Practitioner, Surgeon Metropolitan Police, born Blackheath, Kent; Sarah Alice Lawson, wife, age 48, married 18 years, 6 children, all still alive, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Eveline Alys Lawson, daughter, age 14, school, born Chislehurst, Kent; Margaret Angela Lawson, daughter, age 12, school, born Chislehurst, Kent; Denys William Lawson, son, age 10, school, born Chislehurst, Kent; Sybil Mary Lawson, daughter, age 7, born Chislehurst, Kent; Hermione Clemson Sheppard, servant, age 34, nurse domestic, born Lee, Kent; Minnie Eliza Goldsmith, servant, age 35, house parlour maid, domestic, born Hildenborough, Kent; Evelyn Ada Hackwell, servant, age 29, cook domestic, born East Coker, Somerset; Florence Elizabeth Coplestone, servant, age 20, housemaid domestic, born Dalston, Middlesex.

Brother to Lieutenant R H Lawson, MC, (mentioned in despatches), 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, died 24th August 1916, age 23. Buried I.B.24. Dantzig Alley, British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France. Scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge & Haileybury.

Educated Amesbury School, Bickley, Kent & Haileybury College, where he was Sergeant in the OTC; gained his colours for football & cricket eleven & was captain of the hockey team.

Intended to qualify for the R.A. Medical Service, and was to have entered Middlesex Hospital in October 1914, but on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and joined temporarily The University & Public Schools Battalion; 22nd September 1914, Gazetted Second Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th August 1915, went to France; night of 25th September 1915, entered the trenches for the first time; killed in action the following morning, Sunday the 26th, while leading his Platoon just outside the German trenches.

Unmarried.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France. & Chislehurst War Memorial.

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