Cawson, GA
(1899 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
22nd May 1899
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1912 - 1914
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
193 Anerley Road, Anerley
REGIMENT
Royal Flying Corps
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
30th November 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
18
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Cambrai
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Arras Flying Services Memorial
2nd Lieutenant George Adrian Cawson
George was born in Anerley on May 22nd 1899, the son of engineering clerk George Cawson and his wife Phoebe. He was their twelfth child, and tenth son, of whom he was the only one who went on to attend the College. Whilst at Dulwich he specialised in science and engineering, before leaving in late 1914 as a result of the war.
Although he was aged just fifteen and a half, he joined the “Hawke” Battalion of the Royal Naval Division after Dulwich, but as a result of his age stayed in England training for the next two and a half years, during which he transferred to the Artists Rifles. In June 1917 he took a commission, and two months later transferred again, this time to the Royal Flying Corps, with whom he went across to France, joining up with the 56th Squadron. On November 30th he was involved in a dogfight with German planes above Cambrai when his plane was shot down.
