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Name: LAWSON, Arthur James
Birth Date: ?28 Oct 1891 Old Machar, Aberdeenshire
Death Date: 17.12.1918 Nairobi, trypanosomiasis
First Date: 1905
Profession: Civil Servant, PWD. 1912 Overseer, Kisumu
Area: Kisumu
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Hut, CWGC, Red Book 1912, Gazette, Red 19
War Service: East African Pioneers, Lieut. 1st Road Corps
General Information:
CWGC has Second Lieutenant A.J. Lawson, Special List, attd. 1st. South African Road Corps, who died on Tuesday, 17th December 1918. Nairobi South Cemetery, Grave Ref: III B 1. Died from Trypanosomiasis
Red Book 1912 - Public Works Dept. - Overseer
Gazette 1/1/1912 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Overseer, PWD - 18/12/1911
Gazette 2/7/1919 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Arthur James Lawson, late of Nairobi, who died at Nairobi on 17/11/1918. Applied for by Edward Allen Keene Figgis of Nairobi
Red Book 1919 - Public Works Department - Overseer - A.J. Lawson
Nat Probate Calendar says he died 15 Dec 1918
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers says he died 17 Dec 1918, aged 37, 2 years and 5 months in EA