Private 2372 James Hewitt
Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 6th Bn.
Theatre of War: Mesopotamia
Date Entered Therein: 12/11/1914
Date of death: 5th of April 1916
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Basra Memorial - Panel 23.
Family details:
Widow & Sole Legatee: Mary. Son: Herbert.
Census details:
Possibly a General Labourer aged 38 in 1911. Living at 12 Havelock St, St Helens with wife Marry and children Annie, Harold and Herbert.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=27]Remembered On St Lukes Church WW1 Memorial, Knowsley Road.[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=27]Remembered On St Lukes Church WW1 Memorial, Knowsley Road.[/url]
[pic]gallery_shroh/southlancs.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private James Hewitt Basra Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Bobpike GWF and Ste M.)[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/2372JamesHewitt.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
