Awards & Winners

James Lennox Dawson

Date of Birth 25-December-1891
Place of Birth Tillicoultry
(United Kingdom, Clackmannanshire)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Engineer, Soldier
Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Dawson enlisted into the 5th Cameronians in November 1914, but transferred to the Royal Engineers in March 1915.

Awards by James Lennox Dawson

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1915


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of conspicuous bravery that took place on 13 October 1915 as a corporal in the 187th Company, Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army during the First World War. Posthumously awarded.)