Name
Harry Lewis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/06/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5400
3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales' Own)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 3.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury
Pre War
Harry Lewis was probably born in 1892 in Albury, but his parents have not yet been found. In 1901 he was living in Sawbridgeworth and age 9 as listed as a boarder with William and Jane Pavitt; William was a bricklayer’s labourer. He has not been found in the 1911 census.
He enlisted in Bishops Stortford shortly after the outbreak of war, his residence is given as Albury in army records.
Wartime Service
He arrived in France in October 1914 as in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
