2nd Lt, 19th (County of London) Bn (St Pancras)  On 2/3/1916 age 20 at the Empire Hospital, Vincent Square, died of wounds received at Loos on 25/9/1915.

Name is remembered on Bay 9 or 10 ARRAS MEMORIAL and at Westminster School. Only son of Charles Reginald Dawson of Beckenham, a tea merchant and importer, and Eleanor Hannah, youngest daughter of William Spencer Mitchell of Cambridge. 

Born 23/12/1895, admitted to Westminster as a King’s Scholar on 23 September 1909,  commissioned as a 2nd Lieut, 3 /10/ 1914, he went to France on 17 June 1915.

From The Times of 7th Feb 1916 DEAN ALFRED GITTINGS Pte TF203940  Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1st/7th Bn Killed in action age 33 16/9/1916 Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B. Thiepval Memorial 

Buried Elmers End Cemetery, Beckenham.

Son of Alfred Dean, born 1883