Portrait photograph of Wing Commander Kenneth John Lawson

Lawson completed over 100 operational sorties before his death on 3 January 1945 during an operation to Nuremberg. This portrait was likely taken in 1944 when Lawson held the rank of acting Wing Commander

The bar to Lawson's DSO was gazetted 18 September 1945 but dated to 1 January 1945, two days before his death. Lawson had served as a Group Navigation Officer in the Path Finder Force