Basic Details
Surname
Dawson
Forenames
Thomas Reginald
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
His biography on the college website states: ‘Thomas Reginald was the only son of Charles Reginald Dawson of Beckenham, Kent, a tea merchant and importer, and Eleanor Hannah, youngest daughter of William Spencer Mitchell of Cambridge. 
He was admitted to Westminster as a King's Scholar on 23 September 1909 and elected to an exhibition at Christ Church in July 1914. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieut., 19th Battalion, London Regiment on 3 October 1914, he went to France on 17 June 1915. He died on 4 February 1916 at the Empire Hospital, Vincent Square, Westminster, from wounds he received in action at Loos on 25 Sept 1915. His name is on Bay 9 or 10 on the Arras Memorial and on the Westminster School Memorial.'
Primary Service
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Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Year of death
1916
Month of death
February
Day of death
4
Age at death
20
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds