LEWIS, George Young
| Service Number: | 5770 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Tunnelling Companies |
| Born: | Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, 30 September 1887 |
| Home Town: | Sulphur Creek, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Hitchin Board School. Hertfordshire, England |
| Occupation: | Trade- ironmongery. |
| Died: | Influenza, Germany, 5 December 1918, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Niederzwehren Cemetery Plot II. Row G. Grave 8. INSCRIPTION WITHOUT YOU WE CAN DO NOTHING WE THREE TILL WE MEET AGAIN , Niederzwehren Cemetery, Niederzwehren, Germany |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Sulphur Creek Memorial Seat |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5770, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5770, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 10 Jul 1917: | Imprisoned Captured at Nieuport (Now Nieuwpoort) during the 'Battle of the dunes' on the Belgium coast while serving in the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company No. 1 section. Source Red Cross WW1 POW records https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/ | |
| 5 Dec 1918: | Involvement Sapper, 5770, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5770 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1918-12-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Dec 1887 Lewis George Young Hitchin 3a 482
He emigrated to Australia at the age of 21.
He was 30 and the son of Samuel Young Lewis and Selina Lewis; husband of Mrs. I. C. R. Lewis, of Sulphur Creek, Tasmania.
INSCRIPTION
WITHOUT YOU WE CAN DO NOTHING WE THREE TILL WE MEET AGAIN.
He is commemorated on the Hitchin memorial which is in the form of a Celtic cross on a pillar mounted on a plinth with three side walls, the front being open with small fence. There are 11 panels of names for the First World War, 356 names in total. The memorial was unveiled by Viscount Hampden on 6th August 1922, the memorial costing £1675 5s 10d at the time. The architect was Walter Millard and the builders Messrs. John Thompson & Sons. The land used was originally part of the churchyard but the non-conformists in the community did not want their dead remembered on Anglican Church property. The names for World War 2 are held in a Book of Remembrance within the parish church, this is referred to on the memorial, there are 162 names. Two Australian casualties of the Great War are commemorated on this memorial-the other being Private Frederick William Beech-53rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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