Charles Vernon Lewis
Date of Birth: 1883
Place Of Birth: Conwy
Date of Death: 18/8/1915
Gender: Male
Where buried: Bangor (Glanadda) Cemetery
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Date of birth - 1883
Where? - Conwy
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Date Enlisted - N/A
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Age - N/A
As - Unknown
Battles
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Date of the battle - 28/7/1914
Where? - First World War
Ranks
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Rank Date - N/A
Rank - As Lieutenant
Service - British Army
As - South Wales Borderers
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Rank Date - N/A
Rank - As Lieutenant
Service - British Army
As - Dorsetshire Regiment
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Date of Death - 18/8/1915
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Family
- Father - Thomas Charles
- Mother - C. M. Lewis
- Mother - Edith Isabel Collingwood Lewis
School(s) attended
- Rydal Mount School
Address
- 74 Belgrave Road, Grosvenor Gardens, London
Additional Information
Charles Vernon Lewis died at Weymouth Nursing Home, while being operated on for appendicitis. The Last Post was sounded when his body was placed on a train at Weymouth. Officers of the Dorsetshire Regiment accompanied the body to Bangor, and the regimental band played funeral music along the journey. Vernon’s funeral was held at St Paul’s Welsh Wesleyan Chapel in Bangor. The “very imposing” procession from there to Glanadda Cemetery included a firing party from the 11th South Wales Borderers. Vernon’s coffin, draped in the Union Jack, was hauled on a gun carriage by a detachment of the Royal Garrison Artillery.
Sport Clubs
- Charles Vernon Lewis played football at school and for Bangor Town F. C.
Occupation prior to the war
- Charles Vernon Lewis worked as the tea merchants Harrisons & Crossfield.
- Charles Vernon Lewis worked at the wholesale grocery shop Thomas Lewis & Co.
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