Name
Joseph Hewlett
25/03/1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/16148
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorial
Pre War
Joseph Hewlett was born in Waltham Cross/Cheshunt, Hertfordshire on 25th March 1895, son of William Richard (born Richard William) Hewlett a, General Labourer/Bricklayer and Annie Elizabeth Hewlett (nee Venables). One of ten children.
Joseph attended St Mary’s Infant School, Cheshunt and Dewhurst Endowed Boys School, Cheshunt, leaving in March 1909 to start work aged 14.
1901 Census records Joseph aged 6, living with his parents, brothers William (9), Fred (4) Alfred (1) and sister Frances (7) at, 113 Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census records Joseph aged 16, employed as a Garden Nursery Hand, living with his parents and eight siblings in, Albury Grove Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
Joseph married Florence Mary Banks the daughter of William and Mary Ann Banks of Waltham Cross, in 1915. they had a son Joseph Harold Hewlett.
Wartime Service
Joseph enlisted at Enfield, Middx, posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) with the service number L/16148. On completion of his training Joseph arrived in France, seeing service on the Western Front.
He was killed in Action, death was presumed on or since 16th September 1916, aged 21. He has no known grave he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium, to the missing.
Additional Information
Florence received a widow’s pension of 18/9 a week from 25th June 1917 and his effects of £2-14s-11, pay owing and his war gratuity of £12.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
