Name
James Jeffery Dawe
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/06/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
24 Squadron and General List
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROSIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
H.A.7
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth, St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, Nr Rickmansworth, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Born on the 11th of August 1898 in Tring and baptised on the 25th of September, James was the son of Sydney and Emily Annie (nee Jeffrey) Dawe.
In 1901 they were living Nightingale Road, Rickmansworth with their four children. Sydney was an Architect. They were still there in 1911 with the house now described as “Ashlyns”. James was elsewhere, presumably at Boarding School. He went to Beaumont House, Heronsgate initially, and then to Cranleigh where he was a Sergeant in the Officers Training Corps, leaving in 1916.
Wartime Service
James applied to the Royal Flying Corps Cadet Wing in the spring of 1917, given a temporary commission, and posted to 24 Squadron on the 20th of November 1917 as a Second Lieutenant.
He was reported missing on the 7th of June 1918 believed shot down over Rosieres. 24 Squadron had been based at Conteville since the 28th of March.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
