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VC674 James Lennox Dawson
BORN 25 December 1891
DIED 15 February 1967 AGE 75
VC Won 13 October 1915 AGE 23
Place VC Won Hohenzollern Redoubt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name James Lennox Dawson No. 91608
VC Issue No. 674 Awards VC
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers, 187th Field Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Tillycoultry, Central Region, Scotland
Place Of Death At his home, 9 Hartfield Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Buried/Location Ashes Eastbourne Crematorium, Hide Hollow, Langney, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Cremated Eastbourne Crematorium, Hide Hollow, Langney, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Date Buried/Cremated 22 February 1967
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Area AL4, Garden of Remebrance (15 May 1967)
Gazetted 7 December 1915
VC Presented 15 December 1915, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent
By The Way…
He was the cousin of (667) James Dalgleish Pollock VC
VC Held By
Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
