Notts Free Press, 19th April 1918
HEWITT A. V.
Albert Victor Hewitt
Lance Corporal 12626
1st Bn., Leicestershire Regiment
Albert Victor Hewitt died on Friday 22nd March 1918, age 20, and was remembered on the ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born c1898 at South Normanton, Derbys, to parents Ernest & Ethel Hewitt. Ernest Hewitt was a Farm Pump Driver, and a native of Bramcote, Notts, who married Ethel Elizabeth Evans in 1896. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living at Berrister Place, South Normanton, Derbys.
Notts Free Press, 19th April 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Leicestershire Regiment’
HEWITT
Albert Victor. Born Normanton, Derbys,
enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). 1st Bn.,
Leicestershire Regt., L/Cpl 12626, Killed in Action, France &
Flanders, 22nd March 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes
