Name
Robert William Hewitt
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
51888
Cheshire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SOISSONS MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted Memorial, St John's Church Memorial, Ashley Green, Bucks
Pre War
Robert Hewitt was born in 1898 in Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire, the son of Frederick and Louisa Hewitt. He was one of eleven children, although two had died by 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Lye Green, Bucks, near Berkhamsted where his father was a horseman on a farm. They were listed as living at nearby Ashley Green on the 1911 Census at which time, 12 year old Robert was a school boy.
He was working as a farm labourer and gave his address on enlistment as Kings Hill, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
Robert was deemed to have been enlisted on 2 March 1916 but was not called up for service until 23 February 1917 at Aylesbury. He was initially placed with the 94th T.R. Battalion, 22nd Reserve Brigade and later transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment under Reg. No. 52338. He was transferred again to the 9th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment and was killed in action on 14 June 1918.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France.
Additional Information
Brother to Harold Frederick Hewitt who served with the Oxfordshire and Buckingham Regiment and was killed in action on 16 May 1915.
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £7 2s 5d. She also received a pension of 10 shillings a week in respect of Robert and his brother Harold.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer