Name
Lewin Hugh Thomas
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/07/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/7628
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 49-51
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial
Pre War
He was born in Southall Middlesex where he was resident and he enlisted in Ealing.
Husband of Florence Elizabeth Thomas, of 3, Bunyan Rd., Hitchin, Herts.
Wartime Service
Lewin was allocated the Regimental Number G/9383 and posted to the 4th Battalion of the Regiment which was in the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of V Corps in the 2nd Army. He was killed in action in Belgium.
The Battalion had moved to the front line at 10.00pm on the 18th July 1915 and was involved in the actions at Hooge in the Ypres Salient. A mine was exploded under a German redoubt between the western end of Hooge and the Bellewarde Lake at 7.00pm on the 19th July 1915. Ten men of the 4th Battalion were killed by debris. Severe fighting went on all night. In the two days of the 19th and 20th July 1915 the Battalion sustained 300 killed, wounded and missing, being over one third of the total fighting strength of the Battalion.
He has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
