Name
James Evan Dewar
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
5th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 D
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 1 Dec 1886 in Putney, London son of James and Edith (Evans) Dewar.
Educated at Haileybury College 1901-04.
He married Phyllis Catherine Cooke on 26 Oct 1911 in Wandsworth, London. Apprenticed to a Corn Broker in the City of London.
Wartime Service
Served in the Inns of Court O.T.C as Lance Corporal. Later obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th London Regiment and entered France on 21 Sep 1916 and was killed in action just over two weeks later at the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
