A request from sandybee49 for the grave of an Australian soldier buried in Bedlington St Cuthbert Northumberland reveals he was a Gunner in the Australian Field Artillery.

Sandybee's website WW1 Australian Soldiers & Nurses Who rest in the united kingdom http://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com.

Gunner George Grey Lawson

CWGC Information

LAWSON, GEORGE GREY

Rank: Gunner

Service No: 1871

Date of Death: 22/01/1917

Regiment/Service: Australian Field Artillery

Australian Artillery Training Depot

Grave Reference: In South West part.

Cemetery: BEDLINGTON (ST. CUTHBERT) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information:

Son of the late Daniel and Barbara Ann Lawson, of Yalilla, South Australia.

His grave registration details reveals he died of sickness at Weymouth Military Hospital, and records he is buried in a family grave. His next of kin is recorded as Miss M.G. Lawson of YONGALA NEW SOUTH WALES (250 km North of ADELAIDE) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Yongala+SA+5493,+Australia/@-33.028065,138.7488272,2276m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x6abe9cf888df9585:0x4033654628ef820?hl=en

A little research:

Adelaide Chronicle

February 9th 1917

DIED OF ILLNESS

1871. Gnr. G. G. LAWSON, Yatina (Jan. 26).

Gunner Lawson was admitted to the hospital with influenza, and on his recovery he transferred from the. Light Horse to the Artillery, and left for England early in June, where he look ill and never recovered. Besides his brother, Dvr. J. G. Lawson, in France, he leaves two sisters and another brother.

February 17th 1917

Gunner George Gray Lawson, who died at the Military Hospital, Wrimouth, England, after a long illness was the second son of the late Mr. D. Lawson, of Yatina, and was 21 years and 2 months of age. He enlisted on September 28, 1915, and sailed for Egypt on January 11, 1916. On his arrival there be met his brother Gill, who is now in France.

Gunner Lawson was admitted to the hospital with influenza, and on his recovery he transferred from the Light Horse to the Artillery, and left for England early in June, where he took ill and never recovered. Besides his brother, Dvr. J. G. Lawson in France, he leaves two sisters and another brother.

Gunner Lawson is buried at Bedlington St Cuthbert in Northumberland.

The North East War Memorial Project gives an indication why Gunner Lawson ended up being buried in Bedlington, nearly 400 miles from where he died.

http://www.newmp.org.uk/article.php?categoryid=99&articleid=1511&displayorder=2

He is buried next to his grandmother Mary Lawson who is interned in a family grave.