DAWSON, Albert Edward
| Service Number: | 2634 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, 1884 |
| Home Town: | Gosford, Gosford Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newington College, Stanmore, New South Wales |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Palestine, 4 November 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Beersheba War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 2634, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 2634, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 4 Nov 1917: | Involvement Trooper, 2634, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2634 awm_unit: 1 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1917-11-04 |
Life of Albert Edward Dawson
Albert Edward Dawson was the eleventh child of Henry Dawson and his wife Phillis Priscilla Burt. He was born Glebe in May 1884.
According to the particulars given to the Australian War Memorial by his sister Phoebe he was educated at Newington College. After he left school, he became a farmer, probably in the Gosford area.
On 1st December 1915 he enlisted in the Australian Army at Casula. He joined the 18th Reinforcements for the First Australian Light Horse Regiment. He embarked from Sydney on board the Hororata on 2 May 1916 and on 3 August 1916 he was taken on strength of his regiment in Egypt.
He had been engaged to Edith Watson.
The battle for Beersheba was fought on 31st October 1917. The 1st Australian Light Horse regiment was involved in the battle for Tel el Saba and later on took part in a dismounted attack on the Beersheba mosque in the Northern suburbs of Beersheba. The 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment did not take part in the famous charge on Beersheba by the 4th and 12th Australian Light Horse Regiments.
The Allied Army then began to progress northward to Tel el Khuwielfe on 1st November 1917. There was a furious battel at Tel el Khuwielfe which continued for seven days. The 1st AHLR was awarded a Military Cross and five Military Medals for this encounter.
On 3 November 1917 around 8:00 AM, Dick (as he was known) was wounded in action while carrying a wounded comrade back to safety. He was taken to Beersheba hospital and died of his wounds the following day and was buried in the military cemetery in Beersheba.
Submitted 27 May 2021 by Bryan O'Halloran
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