For sale is a 1914 Star named 1291 PTE N.E. LAWSON. H.A.C.; British War and Victory Medals named LIEUTN. E. LAWSON. Medals swing mounted as worn and come with copies of service records, MIC, medal rolls, picture and newspaper article. 

Lieutenant Norman Eisenhuth Webster Lawson was born in St Pancras, London in 1891. His father Emil Alexander Webster Lawson being an actor/comedian, from Adelaide, South Australia.

He was working as a clerk for the Canadian bank of Commerce (London) pre–Great War. He had previously served with the Imperial Yeomanry but purchased his discharge.

He enlisted into the Honourable Artillery Company as a Private on the day Brittain declared war on 4/8/1914. He was posted to the 1st Battalion 4th Company.

He landed in France with the Battalion on 18/9/1914 and served with them there until 10/10/1915. Promoted to Corporal in August 1915, he appears on the 12/10 1915 wounded lists. The bank employees record states that he was wounded in the scalp, June 1915, and September, 1915.

He was returned home on 11/10/1915 and commissioned on 26/10/1915 into the 5th Middlesex Regiment (garrison Chatham).

He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in January 1916 and was posted to the 142nd Brigade MG Coy (47th (London Division) joining them on 7/5/1916.

He continued to serve with the Company until medically evacuated to England sick on 12/4/1918, on recovering he was posted to MCC Grantham Camp for duty in June 1918 and it would appear that he remained there until the end of the war. He was demobilised in January 1919.

He returned to his prewar employment with the bank. He emigrated to Cannada possibly 1920 and continued his employment with the bank.

Tragically he took his own life with a revolver on 16/3/1944 in Hamilton, Canada. A sad end for a soldier who served from the start to the finish of the war and survived the Second Battle of Ypres, May 1915; Vimy Ridge, High Wood, Messines, Bourlon Wood, 1917; German Offensive, 21st March, 1918.

 

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