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Name: DAWSON-SMITH, Charles Frank (Lieut.)
Birth Date: 1887 Brampton, Derbyshire
Death Date: 11.1.1920 Garre, murdered by Somali mutineers
First Date: 1918
Last Date: 1918
Profession: Military, 5th KAR
Married: In Bakewell 1914 Lavinia Dakin b. 1894 Bradwell, Derbyshire, d. 1946 Bakewell
Book Reference: Moyse, Lillibullero, CWGC, All Saints, Old Africa 27
General Information:
Lillibullero - on road to Mandera - Our route lay along the course of the river (Daua) ...... we passed the great Ghersi tree ....... Under the tree ....... lay the remains of Dawson-Smith, killed nearby, until the unremitting and fanatical desecration of the Cross on the stone which covered him, demanded their removal to Wajir.
CWGC - Frank Dawson-Smith, Lieutenant, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, attd., 5th KAR, who died on Sunday, 11th January 1920. Age 33. Son of the Rev. Charles and Mrs Katie Dawson-Smith, of Nash Rectory, Stony Stratford, Bucks; husband of Lavinia Dawson-Smith. Wajir Cemetery.
Moyse - in Jan 1918 a Somali platoon mutinied and murdered Lt. Dawson-Smith at Garre - 19 men were implicated
Medical Register Took Prelim Exam as medical student 1904 at Westminster Hospital