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Dawes, Christopher Myers

[1819-1900] Born in Halifax Nova Scotia. He was on active service as a Major and Pay Master for the Army

He married   Caroline Louisa Johnstone

DAWES, Lt. Col. Myers. ‘Valetta’, Sedlescombe Rd, 1887. [HD87]

W.T.Pike’s Hastings and St Leonards directory and local blue book for 1887

He died at Brentford

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/21657/pages/389/page.pdf
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster.Artillery Corps, Royal Lancashire Militia Dated 24th January, 1855.
Christopher Myers Dawes, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 29th January, 1855.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/21695/pages/1497/page.pdf
Artillery Corps, Royal Lancashire Militia.
Second Lieutenant and Acting Quartermaster
Christopher Myers Dawes to be First Lieutenant. Dated 12tb March, 1855

THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 12, 1858
Commission signed by the Queen.
Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery Regiment.
Christopher Myers Dawes, Esq., to be Paymaster, from the 1st day of October, 1857. Dated 29th December, 1857.

THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2,1864
72d Foot—Paymaster Christopher Myers Dawes, rom tlie Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia, to ; be Paymaster, vice George Fowler, who has resigned. Dated 30th August 1864.

THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 28, 1869 BREVET.
Paymaster Christopher Myers Dawes, 72d Foot, to have the honorary rank pf Captain. Dated 30th August 1869

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