William Robert Aufrère "Bob" Dawson, DSO & Three Bars (23 June 1891 – 3 December 1918) was a British Army officer in the First World War.

Antoine Aufrère, Marquis de Corville and minister of the French congregation at the Savoy Chapel; her daughter Sarah with Canon Balthazar Regis married William Dawson.

He was a Cadet in the Officers' Training Corps at Oxford University and joined the Royal Field Artillery in 1912.

He served with the Royal West Kent Regiment on the Western Front from June 1915, in the 12th Division, and commanded the 6th Battalion from 1916 to his death in 1918.

The unit served south of Ypres, at Hulluch near Loos, at the craters near Vermelles, was in reserve at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, but joined the offensive on Ovillers, and then at Gueudecourt in October 1916.

After a long period in the 20th General Hospital at Camiers, during which time he was visited by his parents, he died of wounds in December 1918.