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306 Roland Stanley FLOWERS (1899-1964) (inducted 5.9.1949; died 8.1.1964
whilst still a member.) Paper Specialties - Distributing. He was a Wholesale
Paper and Stationery Merchant operating in his own name from his home
address, which from his birth until 1952 was at Walford Street, Burnt Tree,
then for 3 years at Knowle Hill Road, Netherton, and finally at Castleton
Street, Netherton. On leaving school he worked as an Export Clerk until he
was old enough to join the army, the First World War having started. In
April 1917 he enlisted into the 9th Hampshire Yeomanry Cyclists but 12
months later transferred to the 2nd Worcester Regiment. He served in
France during 1918, being badly gassed in June; stripped of his Lance-Corporal stripe in July for
neglect of duty when in charge of a sentry post; and wounded in action on four separate days in
October! During the Second World War he served as a Pilot Officer in the Training Branch of the
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and afterwards was a leading member of Dudley RAF
Association, being Chairman in 1950 and subsequently a Vice President.

307 Horace BATES (1903-1972) (inducted 14.11.1949; left 26.3.1956.) ‘Drop Stamping’, later
changed to ‘Steel Forging - Manufacturing’. He was Works Manager with Clydesdale Stamping
Co. Ltd of Atlas Works, Marriott Road, Netherton, manufacturers principally of forgings for the
automotive industry. He was born and lived in Walsall into the 1930s but his home was in
Gervase Drive, Dudley from 1939. His first job on leaving school was as an architect’s assistant.

308 Frederick (‘Fred’) BAUGH (1883-1961) (inducted 14.11.1949; made a Past Service Member in
first part of 1958; died 18.10.1961 whilst still a member.) Bedstead
Manufacturing. He was a Director of H Marlow Limited of Excelsior
Works, Wellington Road, Dudley, manufacturer of brass and iron
bedsteads and hearth furniture, and probably also of S F Turner Limited,
an associated company in the same premises, making safes and
bedsteads. At 1921 he was Works Manager at S F Turner’s. His father
owned a similar company in New Mill Street. Although father died when
Frederick was only 11, the firm continued until 1913 so Frederick may
have started work in the family business before joining Turners and
Marlows. His work as a brassfounder was presumably a reserved occupation during the First
World War because at that time he was Scoutmaster of the 3rd Dudley Boy Scouts (the Grammar
School troop) and a secretary of Dudley Boy Scouts Association. For many years he was a
churchwarden and member of the church council of St John’s, Kates Hill, and wrote a widely
read history of the church.

309 Dr Thomas (‘Tom’) Oliver Prescott Dewar LAWSON, Maj. (1912-1989)
(inducted 14.11.1949; resigned December 1954 on moving to Cheltenham
where he immediately joined the Rotary club.) Public Health Service.
Medical Officer of Health for the County Borough of Dudley from April
1949. He grew up in Helensburgh, Scotland, and studied medicine at
Glasgow University. After qualifying in 1937 he seems to have returned to
practise in his home town until he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in
1941. He saw action in Italy, for which he was mentioned in despatches,
and then in the Middle East. He married in Cairo in 1945. On his discharge
from the army, with the rank of Major, he was appointed an assistant
medical officer with Staffordshire County Council before coming to Dudley. He left Dudley in
1954 to become Medical Officer of Health for Cheltenham, a post he held until reorganisation
of the NHS in 1974 when he was appointed a specialist in community medicine in
Gloucestershire. He was a founder member of the Faculty of Community Medicine. During his
35 years in Cheltenham he was president of the local branches of the BMA, Royal College of