Name
William Richard Lewis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/11/1916
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23305
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
O.II.U.7
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston, Not on the Hitchin memorials
Pre War
Born in Hitchin, son of Thomas James and Elizabeth Alice Lewis. Baptised on 19 June 1885 at St Mary's Hitchin.
1911 Census: living with family at 4 Browns Yard, Hitchin, Herts and working as a Tan Yard Salter. Married Nellie E Blaxhill in 1912. They later lived at Maiden Street, Weston, Herts.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Bedford. Injured during an attack at the Beaucourt Sector.
Transferred to No. 5 General hospital in the Rouen district of France and died of wounds.
Additional Information
Widow Nellie was awarded a war gratuity of £3.10s.
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
