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Name: DAWSON, John Vavasour 'Jack' DSO (Major)
Nee: 2nd son of William Christopher Dawson
Birth Date: 1890 Weston, Yorkshire, bapt 9 Apr
Death Date: 28 Feb 1935 Kisii, typhoid fever
First Date: 1919
Last Date: 1935
Profession: DC. Narok, Kisii, 1922 ADC Nakuru. DC Narok 1933. DC at Kisii in about 1928. He had been in the 13th Hussars and lost a leg in the war
Area: Nakuru, 1925 Naivasha, 1930 Narok
Married: In Marnhull, Dorset 2 July 1915 Charlotte Gerda Romilly b. 1889 Calcutta, d. 1970
Children: Herbrand Vavasour (1918); Peter Romilly (1930 Winchester)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Burke, Rift Valley, Fox Davies, Gazette, Dunkley, Nellie, Gethin
War Service: Capt. and Brevet Maj. 13th Hus., served in WW1 1914-17 in France and Mesopotamia
School: Glenalmond and RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
NOT in DSO ?
Burke - District Commissioner, Kenya 1919 [No mention of DSO in Burke?]
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 21 Jun 1920
Gazette 24/12/1919 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. District Commissioner - 8/12/1919
Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - John Vavasour Dawson - Asst. Resident Commissioner - Nakuru
KAD 1922 - Administration Cadet, Nakuru.
Dunkley - Memoirs of K.L. Hunter - Kisii - " ..... I took over the boma from Jack Dawson who had died there from enteric. .. "
Lord Francis Scott's Diary, Bodleian Library, Mss Brit.Emp.s.349 Stayed with the Dawsons in Nakuru. He lost a leg in the war and has a wooden one. He broke it one day when rhino shooting and had difficult time getting home again. Mrs Dawson is a cousin of ours.
Zsigmond Szechenyi, Csui! In the evenings he dresses in a dinner jacket, as if he were back home in London. His solitary dinner is served on a silver tray he brought from home, and the Major consumes it every day in evening dress, far away in his African mud hut. And he does all this not out of pretension, not out of ‘show’, but, as he says, ‘to defend himself against complete savagery!’
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