The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant A W Lewington


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Serjeant Alfred William LEWINGTON, G/1897, 7th   Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 1st July 1916.

Born Islington, Middlesex, son of George & Mary Ann Lewington.


1911 Census - 4 Fordhams Grove, Islington, London N - George Lewington, head, age 53, married, scaffolder, building trade, worker, born Tottenham, London; Mary Ann Lewington, wife, age 54, married 31 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, charwoman, born Folkestone, Kent; Alfred Lewington, son, age 25, single, bricklayers labourer, building trade, worker, born Islington, London.

1911 Census - 13 Chambord Street, Bethnal Green - Adelaide Sowerby, head, age 22, single, 2 children, both still alive, cigarette maker, worker, born Stepney Parish; Adelaide Sowerby, daughter, age 2, born Bethnal Green; George Sowerby, son, age 3 months, born Bethnal Green.


4th August 1912, St Phillip, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, Alfred Lewington, age 26, bachelor, labourer, 6 Mount Street, father George Lewington, scaffolder, married Adelaide Eliza Sowerby, age 23 spinster, 6 Mount Street, father Thomas Sowerby, Stevedore.

Children according to Pension Records- Adelaide White, born 14th April 1908; George William White, born 25th December 1910; Alfred William Lewington, born 24th April 1913; Elizabeth Lewington, born 2nd May 1915.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent.  Resided Pentonville, Middlesex.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, IV. P. 2., Mametz, France.


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