where they stayed at a hotel at 74 Bedford Rd, Toxteth. On 1 May the German Luftwaffe began a bombing campaign on Liverpool that would last more than a week. On 4 May, as the warning sirens went off, family and friends at the hotel, including Lawson's sister Dorothy, took safety in a shelter, while Lawson and Beaumont stayed in their room. The hotel was destroyed, injuring the couple who later died at the Royal Southern Hospital, Smithdown Rd, Liverpool, while all those who sought safety in the shelter survived. The death of Beaumont and Lawson was announced in newspapers around the globe,
