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Name: DAWSON, Mainwaring Currey
Nee: bro of Cargey Currey and Horace Currey Dawson and Ralph Dawson-Curry
Birth Date: 27 July 1890 Toxteth Park
Death Date: 23 Sept 1916 at sea on hospital ship
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1916
Area: Bendor, Thika
Married: Sheilagh
Book Reference: Hut, CWGC, A. Allen, Gazette
War Service: EAMR & 3 KAR
General Information:
CWGC - Mombasa (Mbaraki) Cemetery - British Memorial - Lieutenant M.C. Dawson, 3rd Bn. King's African Rifles. 23rd September 1916.
A. Allen - Dawson was wounded at the battle of Matomoda on 10 Aug 1916 and died on 23 Sep 1916, was buried at sea and is commemorated on the Mombasa Memorial.
Hut has Mainwaring Dawson-Curry, married to Sheilagh, 1946 Isogi then went to RSA, died 2001 [? son of Ralph] [He died 20 May 2002]
Gazette 21/3/1917 - Probate and Administration in respect of estate of Lieut. Mainwaring Currey Dawson, deceased, who died at sea on 23/9/1916 - Horace Currey Dawson, Administrator of the estate