Service Details
Name:
 DAWSON
Given Name:
 JOHN FREDERICK THOMAS
Initials:
 J F T
Service No:
 15088
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Tank Corps
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Unit:
 4th Armoured Car Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1942-04-11
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Date of Birth:
 1900-08-06
Age:
 41
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
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.
Commemoration
Country:
 Libya
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Cemetery:
 TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. D. 28.

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