Corporal Arthur George Dawson Lewis
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Lewis,
Arthur George Dawson
Date of birth: 1900-05-08
Place of birth: Richmond West Carleton County Ontario Canada
Next of kin: George Lewis (father,) Richmond West, Carleton County, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Student
Occupation (normalized): Other Professional, Technical and Related Workers Not Elsewhere Classified
Address:
Richmond West, Carleton County, Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Vimy Memorial, N/A
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 145821
Highest Rank:
Corporal
(87th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Corporal, 87th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
- Private (Army). 1916-03-21 ?
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Attack at Vimy Ridge. Previously reported Missing, now Killed in Action
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 1570524
LAC ID:
530667
Service file: B5617-S016
Uploader's Notes:
Son of George B. and Caroline Lewis, of 199, Florence St., Ottawa, Ontario.
Digitized service file is available at LAC. While his service file shows that he was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1917, his Circumstances of Casualty form still gives his rank as Private.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database [Private Army Canadian Infantry 77th Battalion Corporal Army Canadian Infantry 87th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-08-05