Private 27067 Joseph LEWIS

Private 27067 Joseph Lewis{gallery}Pte J Lewis{/gallery}8th Battalion, Welch Regiment. Formerly Pte 27067 Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died at home on 27th October 1918, aged 22. Joseph suffered a serious leg wound at Gallipoli on 8 Aug 1915

• Buried: Nuneaton (Stockingford) Cemetery. Not in CWGC Grave
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of James and Rose Hannah Lewis
• Husband of Sophia Williams [later Phillips]. Married Jul Qtr 1916 at Nuneaton.
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Stockingford St. Paul’s | Stockingford Council School
  

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• Welch Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Jan Qtr 1896 at Dudley
• Attended Stockingford Council School
  
• Lived at Robinsons End, Chilvers Coton [1901]
  
• Lived at 204 Tomkinson Road, Nuneaton
• Employed as a brickyard labourer [1911]
• Employed as a miner [1914]
  
• Enlisted at 27 Aug 1914 at Nuneaton. Arrived in the Balkans 4 Jul 1915.