BX December 28, 1914

Fears for Brantford Reservist

Word has been received in an indefinite way at Mohawk Institute that William Pawson, late boy’s master at the institution, and a reservist of the Scots Guards had been killed at the front. Positive word, however, has not been received and the staff there is hopeful that he was but wounded, and not killed as the first report said. Further word is expected shortly, enquiries having been made from headquarters in the old land.

BX May 3, 1915

Private William Pawson, Reservist of the Scots Guards, Late Boys’ Master at the Mohawk Institute, is the Latest Name to be Added to the Casualty List. He is at Present Lying Seriously Wounded in a Hospital in Kent.

Private William Pawson had served his time in the Scots Guards, and had but little time further to put in on the reserve when he received the call to the front. He was one of the 20 reservists who left on August 18, during Old Home week, and was given a rousing send-off.

There are no relatives in the city, word of his condition being received by a friend of the Mohawk Institute, at which he was boys master for eight or nine months. The letter did not state how serious the wound was, nor where he was at the time that he received it, but it is known that in January he was in the trenches in France, no further word having been received after that time until the letter telling of his being in the hospital.

BX May 24, 1915

William Pawson, late boys master at the Mohawk Indian Institute, is safe in England, though it was for a time thought that he was missing. The Expositor has received a letter from him, dated from 14 Brooklyn Street, Armley, Leeds, England, stating that he had been invalided out of the service, owing to appendicitis having set in. He was in France. He asks for the whereabouts of Corp. Cobden and Corp. Blanchard, two reservists who left with him in August last.