LEWIS, Cecil Frederick
| Service Numbers: | 64077, N67979 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 June 1918, Newcastle, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lance Bombardier |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Port Pirie, South Australia, 19 June 1898 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Asst/by products (B.H.P. Steel Works) |
| Died: | 2 September 1958, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-201. 58. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jun 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 64077, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, Newcastle, NSW | |
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| 23 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 64077, 7th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd MD, medically unfit (laryngitis) |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Sep 1940: | Involvement N67979 | |
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| 24 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Newcastle, NSW | |
| 24 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Bombadier, N67979, Newcastle, NSW | |
| 24 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, N67979 | |
| 23 Mar 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, N67979 | |
| 23 Mar 1944: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
67 years ago today, on the 2nd September 1958, Private Cecil Frederick Lewis, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg No-64077), asst/by products (B.H.P. Steel Works), from Fourth Street, Adamstown, New South Wales and Wallsend?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 59. ANGLICAN 3-201. 58.
Born at Port Pirie, South Australia on the 19th June 1899 to Frederick Thomas, died 19.4.1937, Adamstown, N.S.W., age 61, buried at GENERAL-30. 1, unmarked grave?, from 6 Bailey Street, Adamstown, N.S.W., and Mabel (Serran) Frances Lewis, died 8.11.1952, 85A Union street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., ashes interred Newcastle Memorial Park, N.S.W.; husband of Alma Lewis nee Gibson, married 1923, Adamstown, N.S.W., died 22.12.1976, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 73, sleeping here, Cecil enlisted on the 5th June 1918 with the 5th General Service Reinforcements (Egypt), New South Wales at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board SS Port Darwin on the 14th September 1918.
Disembarked Suez, Egypt 19.10.1918.
Taken on strength 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment 23.11.1918.
Admitted to hospital 19.2.1919 (aphonia - a voice disorder characterised by the total or near-total loss of your voice, making it impossible to produce vocal sound or only allowing you to speak in a whisper).
Commenced return to Australia 15.3.1919.
Cecil arrived home invalided on the 20th April 1919, being discharged medically unfit (laryngitis) on the 23rd May 1919.
Did not serve in a theatre of war, therefore was not granted Victory Medal. But did go on to serve in WWII.
Mr. Lewis’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial and the Adamstown Municipal District Roll of Honor.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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