LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Godfrey Douglas DAWSON
Service No: 29325
Born: Woolwich England, 18 September 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 November 1940 (at Perth WA)
Unit: RAAF Headquarters, Melbourne VIC
Died: Accident, Mount Garnet QLD, 13 October 1945, Aged 34 Years
Buried: Gunnawarra Private Cemetery, QLD
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Ralph Godfrey St. Cyprian Dawson and Dorothy Dawson, of Victoria Park, Western Australia; husband of Lillian Dawson.
Roll of Honour: WA
Remembered: Panel 97, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On 13 October 1945, Warrant Officer Dawson, a Clerk Pay, and his wife accidentally drowned at Gunnawarra Station.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/9/797