HEWETT, Roy Sylvester
| Service Number: | 765 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 August 1914, Morphettville, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 29 July 1891 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Barman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 24 August 1916, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Plot 6, Row D, Grave No. 37, Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Warloy-Baillon, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Morphettville, South Australia | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 765, 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 765, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide |
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World War 1 originated from Europe or to be precise the Austria-Hungary Empire. It all started in the city of Sarajevo on the 28th of July when a Serbian extremist by the name of Gavrilo Princip killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This started a snowball effect, which then escalated to what we know of today as World War 1.
Hewett, Roy Sylvester was born in Adelaide on the 29th of July 1891. Roy worked as a barman in Morphettville. His father, F F Hewett was the only close family he had at the time and it was only after the approval of him that was Roy able to go and fight in the war.
Roy enlisted in the service on the 29th of August 1914 at the enlistment camp in Adelaide. He embarked to France on the 20th of October 1914 on board Transport A11 Ascanius. After landing in France, he was in the Trenches for 1 year and 11 months and after several injuries was killed in action 24th August 1916. His father was then informed a couple of weeks after the death.
After being injured, he was quickly rushed to the nearest medic but unfortunately died before he got there. He was then buried in the Warloy-Baillon communal cemetery in France with many of his comrades that he had fought and lived within the past two years.
Biography
"THE LATE PRIVATE R. S. HEWETT.
News has been received by his father of the death from wounds in France, on August 24, of Private R. S. Hewett. The deceased soldier enlisted with the 10th Battalion, and left for the front with the battalion, and was the first to land at Anzac." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 07 Oct 1916 (nla.gov.au)
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