| Places | |
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| Accession Number | 1DRL/0416 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 2 cms. |
| Object type | Papers |
| Maker |
Lewis, Charles Horace |
| Place made | Egypt, France, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, United Kingdom: England |
| Date made | 1915-1917 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/11/163 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Lewis, Charles Horace (Sergeant)
Description
Collection relating to the service of 51 Sergeant Charles Horace Lewis, 13 Battalion, AIF, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, England. Collection comprises letters written by Sergeant Lewis to his family in Liverpool, England; snapshots; two notebooks; a newspaper cutting; a small New Testament; and four letters written by Sergeant Lewis' brother Private Frank Ernest Lewis, to his mother.
History / Summary
Biographical note: Sergeant Charles Horace Lewis, 13 Battalion, AIF, who was mortally wounded on 3 July 1918 near Villers Bretonneux, and died the following day. Other biographical details concerning him are: clerk; of Sydney, NSW' born Bradford, Yorkshire, England; educated at Oxford College, Waterloo, Liverpool, England; served for 18 months as a volunteer in the Royal Naval Reserve, England; came to Australia when 18 years old; age at time of death, 25; enlisted in the AIF in August 1914, serving in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France; was wounded on a number of occasions, at least five (his father says eight times). His brother, Private F. E Lewis, 1/10 Scottish, British Army, was killed on 19 June 1918 in France.