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Left image: Colonel James Lawson DSO VD. Right image: George Lambert's 'The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 31 October, 1917' (1920). In March 1918, Lambert rode the course that the charge had taken to obtain facts for his painting, where one of his guides was Lawson, who is depicted in the artwork. Photo: Bidgee Free to Read

Veterans Voices: James Lawson

James Lawson, stock and station agent and soldier, son of James Lawson, a police officer, and his wife Elizabeth, née Dickinson, was born on February 16, 1884, in Halifax, England.

31 October, 2026

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