Edwin Thomas LEWIS

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Service Number:	878
Enlisted:	13 January 1915, Enlisted at Perth, WA
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	10th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 1895
Home Town:	Maylands, Bayswater, Western Australia
Schooling:	Maylands State School
Occupation:	Coachbuilder
Died:	Killed in Action, Quinns Post, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 1 June 1915
Cemetery:	Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Plot 11, Row D, Grave 1 Chaplain Rev. Merrington officiated Headstone inscription reads: These made fair, Australia's Honor with their dying breadth, and passed, Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Maylands Methodist Church, Maylands War Memorial, Midland Railway Workshops Soldiers Memorial

13 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 878, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Perth, WA
19 Apr 1915:	Involvement Private, 878, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
19 Apr 1915:	Embarked Private, 878, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Argyllshire, Fremantle
1 Jun 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 878, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 878 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-06-01

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Son of Walter and Emily Elizabeth Lewis of 23 Seventh Avenue, Maylands, WA

At the time of enlistment he was serving his apprenticeship as a Railway Coach and Wagon builder