William Walter Lewis
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Somerset Light Infantry
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 18783
Parents: Walter Edward and Ellen Annie Lewis
Home address: 1 Orchard Place, Moravian Road, Kingswood, Bristol
Date of birth: 1897
Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol
Date of death: 22/08/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium and Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial
Age: 20
Further information:
William was born in Kingswood, the son of a bootmaker and the second youngest of seven children with four brothers and two sisters.
William served with the 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry.
William was killed in action during the Battle of Passchendaele (the third battle of Ypres) which lasted from 31st July to 10th November 1917 and resulted in combined casualties estimated to be around 800,000 for both allies and Germans. William 's body was never identified and the Tyne Cot Memorial where William is commemorated is one of four memorials to the missing in an area of Flanders known as the Ypres Salient.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/