Name |
Frank DAWSON-SMITH |
Rank/Number |
Lieutenant |
Regiment/Unit |
Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry / K African Rifles attd 5th |
Enlisted |
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Age/Date of death |
33 / 11 Jan 1920 |
How died/Theatre of war |
Murdered /  |
Residence at death |
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Cemetery |
Wajir Cemetery, Kenya |
Grave Reference |
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Location of memorial |
Nash |
Date/Place of birth |
c1887 / New Brampton, Derbs |
Date/Place of baptism |
16 Jan 1887 Brampton |
Occupation of Casualty |
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Parents/Occupation |
Charles Clare & Catherine Maud Dawson-Smith / Clerk in Holy Orders |
Parents' Address |
The Rectory, Nash |
Wife |
Lavinia Dawson-Smith |
Wife's Address |
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Notes |
murdered by Somali mutineers, re-interred Wajir Fort Jun 1929. formerly with Yorks and Lancs Regiment. Later commissioned in OBLI. In sole charge of troops in Abyssinian frontier. Plaque also in All Saints Church, Nairobi |
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