Cyril Llewellen Prewett
Memorial: Downend - Christ Church
Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 34093
Parents: Charles Ernest and Elizabeth Amelia (Nee Llewellyn) Prewett
Marital status: Married
Home address: 1901 Census – Upper Bath Road, Thornbury, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Apprentice Upholsterer
Date of birth: 1892
Place of birth: Thornbury, Bristol
Date of death: 02/08/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: No Known Grave – Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium
Age: 25
Further information:
Cyril was born in 1892 (2nd Quarter) Thornbury. He married Mary F H Couper in 1914 (4th Quarter). Mary and Cyril had one daughter Winifred Joan, born 17/03/1917. Mary remarried a Ernest Thomas in 1919.
Address – The pensions card (dated 1917), records the home address of Mary as 6 Grove road, Redland, which was then amended to c/o Brooks Dye Works, High Street Staple Hill, and then further amended to 149 Forest Road, Fishponds. On the CWGC records Mary's address was recorded as 50 High Street, Staple Hill. The later addresses may be related to Mary's second marriage.
Cyril served with the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment and was Killed in Action on 2/08/1917.
Cyril is commemorated on the Christ Church Downend Memorial and the Staple Hill (Page Park) Memorial.
Also recorded on the St John's Parishioners and School Memorial Clifton Bristol.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Researcher John Davis.