DAWSON S J
DAWSON, Sydney James
Regiment: 1st/4th Bn. King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Rank: Private
Number: 31490
Died: 26 March 1918
Aged: 19
Buried/ Memorial: Arras Memorial, France
Address: 37 Faulkner Street, Hoole
Cheshire Observer 6 April 1918
“We regret to state that Private Sydney Dawson, only son of Mr and Mrs Dawson, Faulkner Street Hoole is reported missing. News of his whereabouts is anxiously awaited by his parents.”
Chester Chronicle 13 April 1918
PTE. S. DAWSON, HOOLE (MISSING)
“We regret to hear that Pte. Syd. Dawson, Shropshire Light Infantry, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Dawson, Faulkner Street, Hoole, is reported missing. Mr Dawson has received an intimation to this effect from his son’s regiment. Dawson joined the army in June and is 19 years of age. He is an All Saints old school boy. Sympathy will be extended to his parents in their anxiety.”
The 1911 Census shows Sydney as a 12-year-old schoolboy at home with his parents at 37 Faulkner Street where his father, Edmund is running a newsagent & tobacconists with mother Emily assisting in the business.