Born: 1898, Idle
Died: 25 January 1918, at sea
Buried:
Address: 10 Russell Street, Windhill
Parents: Alfred Hudson Dawson & Mary Ann
Spouse:
Siblings:
Occupation: Worsted Spinner (1911)
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Able Seaman
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Christchurch, Windhill; Chatham Naval Memorial
Children:
Regiment: RNVR
Gilbert Sidney Dawson
Gilbert’s military record gives his parents as Alfred
Hudson Dawson and Mary Ann of Windhill, but in
both the 1901 and 1911 census records he is living
with the Miller family.
In 1911 it is at 10 Russell Street, Windhill, with is
aunt Maria Miller and her daughter Ann Eliza and
Gilbert is a worsted spinner.
The only mention of Gilbert’s war was this badly
damaged photograph which appears in a gallery of
local servicemen with just the caption, ‘drowned.’
He was one 14 casualties when the SS Normandy was
torpedoed east of Cap de la Hague.
