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Fold3_Team · 31 Oct 2023
Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29394, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29394/supplements/12281. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No.91608 Corporal James Lennox Dawson, 187th Company, Royal Engineers. For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 13th October 1915, at Hohenzollern Redoubt, France. During a gas attack, when the trenches were full of men, he walked backwards and forwards along the parados, fully exposed to a very heavy fire, in order to be the better able to give directions to his own sappers, and to clear the infantry out of the sections of the trench that were full of gas. Finding three leaking gas cylinders, he rolled them some 16 yards away from the trench again under very heavy fire, and then fired rifle bullets into them to let the gas escape. There is no doubt that the cool gallantry of Corporal Dawson on this occasion saved many men from being gassed.
Fold3_Team · 31 Oct 2023
Information: Served in the First World war with 187th Company, Corps of Royal Engineers. Ranks achieved: Corporal, Second Lieutenant, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel. Attached to British Army. Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, Provision Section, Assistant Director, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Captain, Indian Army, seniority date 01/10/1924, Army List 1933. Captain, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Staff Captain of the Directorate of Ordnance Services, Master-General of Ordnance Branch, India Head Quarters, seniority date 31/01/1933, Army List 1933. War Office, Commands (India) seniority date 17/10/1940. Temporary Colonel 01/10/1943. Lieutenant-Colonel 01/10/1944. Indian Army.