Alfred Lawson, MC, was born in South Shields, England, in December 1880. Sometime prior to the war he immigrated to Canada and enlisted in July 1915 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the 90th Battalion (Winnipeg Rifles). Lawson served overseas with the 27th Battalion and was awarded the Military Cross in July 1917. He returned to Canada in May 1919 with demobilization. The collection currently consist of one memoir of the attack on Vimy Ridge. While undated it was written either in 1917 or 1918 given the reference to his use of a camera.