Dendy Lawton
Full names: Alfred Dendy
Date of birth: 21 Aug 1911
Place of birth: Cape Town
Schools: Diocesan College (Bishops) Rondebosch
Springbok no: 245
Springbok debut province: Western Province
Date of death: 6 May 1967 (Age 55)
Test summary: No Tests
Tours Australia & New Zealand 1937


*LEST WE FORGET* - 6 MAY: Piet Fourie

RHODESIAN BUSH WAR

1967 – FR Plt Alfred Dendy LAWTON (55), PRAW, BSAP, was killed in an aircraft accident, seven miles from Umtali on the Penhalonga Road. His plane crashed during a combined air and ground op at Toronto Farm, Penhalonga. He was dropping a spool of film or a message to a PATU team on the ground. Asst Senior Commissioner Eric White suffered severe burns and Lawton's observer, Police Reservist Bill Perkins, also survived with serious burns. Born in South Africa, Lawton was a lawyer by profession and played in the victorious Springbok rugby team, against New Zealand, in 1937.