Corporal Albert Harry Hewitt

Date of Birth c1890
Age at Death 28
Date of Death 31 October 1918
Service Number 121711
Military Service 55th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Merton Address
Local Memorial St. Saviour’s Church, Raynes Park

Additional Information

Albert Henry Hewitt was born c1891 in Staines Middlesex and baptised at St. Mary’s Church Staines on 19th April 1891. In 1901 he was living with his parents James and Esther Hewitt and his younger sister Florence aged 7 at 23 Thames Street, Staines. His father was a boot-maker.

In 1911, aged 20, he and his mother were living in the home of his older sister Edith and brother-in-law William Tyrell at 23 Gore Road, Raynes Park. William Tyrell was a railway clerk and Albert was working as a seedsman packer.

He married Daisy Violet Bowers in Croydon District Nov/Dec 1914.

Albert enlisted in Wimbledon. Initially he was in the Middlesex Regiment (Regimental number 86127)

He died in France on 31 October 1918 aged 28. At the time of his death he was a Corporal in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Listed as husband of Daisy Violet Purcell (formerly Hewitt) of Halifax, Nova Scotia on CWGC certificate. The certificate lists him as ‘native of Raynes Park, London’. It appears that Daisy had remarried and moved to Canada before this document was issued in 1920.

Corporal Hewitt is buried at Don Communal Cemetery, Annoeullin, France. Plot 1.A.25. Memorial ID 25243002. He is also remembered on the memorial at St. Saviour's Church, Raynes Park

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