Oscar LAWSON

LAWSON, Oscar

Service Number: 1606
Enlisted: 24 April 1915
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 18th Infantry Battalion
Born: Longford, Tasmania, Australia, 26 January 1887
Home Town: Longford, Northern Midlands, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Died of wounds, Malta, 18 September 1915, aged 28 years
Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery
Plot B, Row XI, Grave No. 1
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

24 Apr 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1606, 18th Infantry Battalion
12 May 1915: Involvement Private, 1606, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
12 May 1915: Embarked Private, 1606, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Oscar Lawson was born in Tasmania, but enlisted in Sydney during April 1915, and his address was Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. His widowed mother, Mrs. Wilhemina Lawson, lived in Launceston, Tasmania, Oscar’s father having died during 1905.

Oscar Lawson was wounded in action 28 August 1915, during the attack on Hill 60 by the newly arrived 18th Battalion on Gallipoli. He sustained gunshot wounds to his buttock and chest, and though evacuated, he died of wounds at Malta over three weeks later on 18 September 1915.

His older brother, 2106 Pte. Albert Bernard Leslie Lawson 38th Battalion AIF, was later killed in action on 12 October 1917, aged 34.

Another brother, 616 Harry Lawson enlisted with the 1st Light Horse Regiment and returned to Australia during 1919.

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