Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
please scroll down to send a message
238395
Pte. Albert Dawson
British Army 17th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Stopsley, Bedfordshire
(d.28th May 1917)
Albert Dawson was killed near Fresnoy in France. His death is recorded in the regimental War diary as follows:
"On the 28th, the enemy retaliated for the shelling of the previous night. During the day his guns waxed furious and swept the Brigade area with shell of all calibre. Yet, though he battered the defences, blew in dug-outs and in places turned the trenches of the Fusiliers into a sorry spectacle, only one man was killed and two had to be sent down suffering from shell shock."