John K. Lawson was born in 1886 in Hull, England and moved to Edmonton, Canada in 1914. He enlisted for service in WWI, and was assigned to the 9th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and mentioned in two dispatches. During the war, he rose to the rank of Warrant Officer and by the end of the war was a Captain. He participated in multiple battles such as The Somme and Passechendaele. <Read more ...>
West Brigade HQ exists as ruins in good condition today. The site was constructed by the British Military in the 1930s as a strategically invaluable link between all 4 quarters of the island and the commanding split of East/West of the island. Constructed structures included a string of sunken bunkers, low defense walls, a camouflage defense pillbox and a number of other defensive structures including trenches and shooting position.<Read more ...>
