Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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A/Bmbdr. Robert Lawson

British Army D Bty. 88th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

from:1 Walker Street, Bowburn. Co Durham

(d.10th March 1916)

Robert Lawson was the father of my dear and wonderful great uncle Matt who was conceived on leave before Robert returned to the front to die without ever seeing his son. He served with the 88th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery in WW1 and died on 10th of March 1916 aged 28 years and is buried Rue-du-Bacquerot No 1 Military Cemetery at Laventi in France. Son of Mrs. Swinbank, of Bowburn, husband of Sarah E. Lawson, of 1, Walker St., Bowburn, Coxhoe, Co. Durham.

Matt spent his entire working life down the pit, marrying his beloved Olive and dying a proud, kind and dearly loved man in the early 2000s.



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