Private Isaac Lawn
Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force, Battalion 466, Service nos. 1742 & 775119
Born: 22nd September 1892. Died: 1973
Lance Corporal Thomas Lawn
Royal Engineers, 223 Field Company, Service no. 98549
Born: 16th September 1890. Died: 1956
Story
Isaac was the son of George Lawn (1861-1939) and Anna Maria Eastwood (1861-1898) baptised in Swillington on 22nd October 1892, after the couple married in 1886. When Isaac’s mother passed away on 10th December 1898, his father re-married a cousin of his wife’s, Annie Eastwood, the following year.
Isaac was a Joiner and Wheelwright, whilst the family lived at the Saw Mill, Kippax. He enlisted with the Army on 11th January 1915, and was 5 ft 8½ inches tall. He served in France until 31st January 1919, and was gassed three times in 1917 and wounded in August 1917. In 1918 he was disciplined twice for neglect of duty whilst acting as a stableman for the horses used by the Royal Field Artillery.
After the war, Isaac married Ethel Annie Yates in York in 1926, had a son Geoffrey on 24th June 1927, and continued working as a joiner after the family moved to Tadcaster. Isaac passed away in York at the age of 80.
Thomas was Isaac’s older brother. He moved to Micklefield before the War to work as a Blacksmith’s apprentice, and he was working as a shoeing smith when he enlisted in the Army on 24th May 1915. He was 5 ft 8 inches tall and was promoted to Lance Corporal during the War. In 1939 he was a Farm Labourer living in Newthorpe, after marrying Lily Bootland in 1930, who was 23 years his junior. They had two sons, Denis on 3rd October 1935 and Peter on 13th October 1936. Thomas passed away in 1956, at the age of 66.
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