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Thomas Lawson was born in Lockington in 1872, the third son of John and Eliza Lawson. He was one of ten children born to the Lawsons. There is even a little confusion as to exactly where Thomas was born, with one of his service records stating his birthplace as Leeds, though census records give Lockington.
Prior to the war, in 1891, Thomas was a gunner in the Royal Artillery in Wales but left Britain altogether and enrolled in the United States Army. He served in the USA for four years before turning up in Canada in Conquest, Saskatchewan. It was there on 8 Nov 1915 that he joined the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, service no: 187096.
Thomas was killed in action sometime between 28 Sep1916 and 2 Oct 1916 when, according to the Battalion war diary, they were under constant attack and took heavy casualties. He is buried in Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, France.
He is remembered on the Lockington War Memorial.
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