Photo: Geordie at War Project
In Gateshead (Saltwell) Cemetery is a family headstone for Lawson which reads:
In loving memory
of
John
dearly loved husband of
Dorothy Jane Lawson
who entered into rest Nov. 26th 1916
aged 63 years.
Also Dorothy Jane Lawson
wife of the above
who died February 16th 1923
Aged 69 years.
also Lieut. Robert Lawson 7th D.L.I.
Missing, presumed dead
May 27th 1918, in his 29th year.
Robert Lawson is remembered in Gateshead on G39.004 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 126
