Philip Dawson

Bank: Westminster Bank

Place of work: Head Office, London

Died: 12 August 1942

Philip Dawson was born in Coimbatore, Southern India, on 26 August 1921, the son of a British missionary, the Reverend John W Dawson, and his wife Mary. Mary died when Philip was seven, and he and his elder brother, Wilfred, came to England to live in Fleet, Hampshire, as part of the household of the Reverend W Perry Horton. Philip was educated at Mount Radford, Exeter. 

He joined the staff of Westminster Bank in July 1938, and from December that year was based at the bank's London Lothbury office. 

In July 1940 Dawson left the bank to go on war service, becoming a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was killed during air operations on 12 August 1942, shortly before his 21st birthday.