Lieutenant George Edgar Bruce Lawson was a South African World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.
After the Union of South Africa was formed the family travelled by train and then by ox wagon to Johannesburg.
The last of those triumphs, his second of 27 September, resulted in the death in action of noted German ace Fritz Rumey of Jagdstaffel 5.
(FRANCE) A pilot of courage and skill, bold in attack and gallant in action, who has accounted for five enemy aeroplanes.
On 27 September he attacked fifteen Fokker biplanes that were harassing one of our bombing formations, driving down one in flames.