LEWIS, Gilbert
| Service Number: | 11 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 4th Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Kooringa, South Australia , 11 April 1879 |
| Home Town: | Kooringa, Burra, South Australia |
| Schooling: | St Peter's College, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 1974, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Sergeant, 11, 4th Imperial Bushmen |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
Quarter Master Sargeant G Lewis was commissioned in the West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellington's Own) on 4 january 1901.
Biography contributed by nicholas Bruce
Gilbert Lewis was born at Kooringa, South Australia, in 1879. During the South African War, he served with the 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen. While serving as Quartermaster-Sergeant G. Lewis, he was commissioned in the West Riding Regiment, Duke of Wellington’s Own, on 4 January 1901.
He later served in the Indian Army and became known as Major Gilbert Lewis. After his military service he returned to farming, with records connecting him to both South Australia and Western Australia, including Balgarup, Kojonup.
Major Gilbert Lewis is significant to Spalding’s local war memorial history because he laid the foundation stone of the Spalding Soldiers’ Memorial Grandstand on 2 January 1922. The grandstand remains an important local memorial to those who served in the First World War.
Sources: Australian War Memorial Boer War nominal roll for Gilbert Lewis; State Library of Western Australia, Major G. Lewis papers; Virtual War Memorial Australia, Spalding Soldiers’ Memorial Grandstand record.
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