Private 10879 David Arthur Lewis
Regiment/Unit: Royal Irish Regiment - 'B' Coy. 2nd Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Date Entered Therein: 13/08/1914
Age at death: 19
Date of death: 3rd of May 1915
Born: Widnes, Lancashire
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial - Panel 33.
Family details:
Son of Gilbert G. C. and Catherine Lewis, of 66, Ramford St., Parr, St. Helens.
Census details:
1901 - 3 years old David A is living at 18 Pierpoint Street, Widnes with parents Gilbert G C (27), Martha (26) and three siblings: Lilian E (7), William H G (5), Elizabeth (1). 1911 - Sees 13 years old David 'Under Training For Sea' and is away at Birkenhead, Wallasey. Father Gilbert G C must have remarried to Catherine(?).
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[caption]The inscription for Private David Arthur Lewis on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Richard Houghton.)[/caption]
