In Memory Of
DAWSON, JOHN FREDERICK THOMAS
Service Details
Age:
41
Date of Birth:
1900-08-06
Service No:
15088
Rank:
Corporal
Unit:
4th Armoured Car Regt.
Regiment:
South African Tank Corps
Date of Death:
1942-04-11
Cause of Death:
Died of accidental drinking, a bottle of methyl salicylate liniment from a bottle mistaken during nighttime by him for an adjacently placed bottle containing water
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
2. D. 28.
Cemetery:
TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Libya
Additional Information
Son of William P. and Lea Dawson; husband of Isabella Margaret Dawson (nee du Plessis), of 9 Albert Street, George, Cape Province, South Africa. He had 3 children.