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C Company MGC (H) - 3rd Battalion, Tank Corps
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Lt. Cecil Howell Sewell VC 3rd (Light) Tank Bn. Tank Corps (d.29th August 1918)  Cecil Sewell was killed in action on 29th August 1918 aged 23 and is buried in the Vaux Hill Cemetery in France.
He was the son of Harry Bolton Sewell and Mary Ann Sewell, of 26 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London. His brothers Harry Kemp Sewell and Herbert Victor Sewell also fell.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 30982, dated 29th Oct., 1918, records the following:- "When in command of a section of Whippet Light Tanks in action this officer displayed most conspicuous bravery and initiative in getting out of his own Tank and crossing open ground under heavy shell and machine-gun fire to rescue the crew of another Whippet of his section which had side slipped into a large shell-hole, overturned and taken fire. The door of the Tank having become jammed against the side of the shell-hole, Lt. Sewell, by his own unaided efforts, dug away the entrance to the door and released the crew. In so doing he undoubtedly saved the lives of the officer and men inside the Tank as they could not have got out without his assistance. After having extricated the crew, seeing one of his own crew lying wounded behind his Tank, he again dashed across the open ground to his assistance. He was hit in doing so, but succeeded in reaching the Tank when a few minutes later he was again hit, fatally, in the act of dressing his wounded driver. During the whole of this period he was within full view and short range of the enemy machine guns and rifle-pits, and throughout, by his prompt and heroic action, showed an utter disregard for his own personal safety."
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Cpl. Arthur George Stokes C Coy. Machine Gun Corps Heavy Arthur Stokes drove his tank C15 at the Battle of Fleurs 1916, his tank commander was Lt Jethro Toll.
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Cpl. Ernest Thornton MM. C Coy. Tank Corps Ernest Thornton served with C Coy. Tank Corps.
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2nd Lt. Harry Brighstone Newsam 3rd Battalion (Light) Tank Corps (d.8th Aug1918) Second Lieutenant Harry Brighstone Newsam served in the 3rd Light Btn. Tank Corps and died on the 8th August 1918.
He is remembered on the Triptych at St Paul's Church Jarrow and is buried in Le Quesnel Communal Cemetery Extension.
He had previous service as a Corporal No. 1984 in the Northern Cyclist Battalion.
His medal card shows an award of the British War and Victory Medals and a note marked "Comm for MGC" (Commission for Machine Gun Corps)
The Tank Corps was originally classified as the Heavy part of the Machine Gun Corps.
The 1911 census shows him living alone at Thornton Villa, Surrey Street, Jarrow, single, age 24, Occupation: Elementary School Teacher for the Borough Council and taught at Ellison N.S. School in Jarrow. His place of birth was Andover, Hampshire.
He was born in 1886 the son of Mr and Mrs William Newsam of Andover, Hampshire and was married to Catherine Anne Maxwell (formerly Newsam nee Smith) of Belfield, Kenton Road, Newcastle.
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