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Pte. William Henry Lawson

British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry

(d.9th Aug 1915)

William Lawson died aged 21. He was born in Hebburn in 1894, son of Henry and Mary Jane Lawson of 63 Dunston Street Hebburn, where he is recorded as living at the 1911 census; William Lawson, age 16, an Apprentice Plater in Shipbuilding. He enlisted in Jarrow and first served overseas in WW1 on the 1st of November 1914.

William is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow.



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