Name
Frank Albert Lawson
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30690
King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PERNES BRITISH CEMETERY
I. D. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN NEVER SHALL HIS MEMORY FADE FATHER, MOTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath, ROH, St George's Chapel, St Peter’s Church, Bushey Heath, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Not on the Northchurch memorials
Pre War
Frank Albert Lawson was born in Northchurch, Nr Berkhamsted, Herts in 1892, the son of Harry and Elizabeth Lawson (nee Gotzheim), and one of nine children, although one died in infancy. His parents had married in 1890 in the Leighton Buzzard registration district.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 14 Windmill Lane, Bushey Heath, Herts and his father was working as a painter. They remained at the same address in 1911 but Frank had moved to Harrow on the Hill, Middx and at the age of 19 was employed as a groom in domestic service and boarding with George and Alice Hill and their family at Hill House Stables, Harrow Weald .
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted in Woolwich and initially served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps as Private 11085, serving in France from 25 October 1915. He was later transferred to the 1st/5th Battalion of the Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) as Private 30690.
He died of wounds on 23 April 1918, aged 25 and was buried in Pernes British Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £12 and pay owing of £6 2s 7d. She also received a pension of 7s 6d a week.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer, Brenda Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
