"A veteran Cameron," Inverness Courier, June 18, 1912, p. 3f.   "Another of the rapidly diminishing roll of Crimean veterans has passed away in the person of Private John Dawson, Alloa. Dawson, who was in his 79th year, had only been confined to bed for two days. Dawson was a native of Alloa, and enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders about sixty years ago. He passed through the Crimean war, and was also with his regiment at the Indian Mutiny, and was the possessor of no fewer than four medals. He received his discharge in 1876, and since then he had been employed up till a few years ago at one of the distilleries in the district. Through the good offices of Lord Roberts, he obtained admission as a pensioner to Chelsea Hospital, but finding the change uncongenial, he returned to his native town, and maintained himself by his military and old-age pensions."