|
|
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Site Home
Help & FAQs
Features
Submissions
Information
Advertisements
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Fred Blewitt
British Army 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Newlyn, Cornwall
(d.22nd April 1918)
Fred Blewitt is my grandmother's young brother who was only 18 yrs old when he died. I didn't know whose relation he was until I looked up his death record on Ancestry.com. Where I was also told that he is named on the Loos-en-Gohelle Memorial, and I having looked this up; it is supposed to name the dead who could not be identified. But also he is buried at the Cambrin Military Cemetery not far from Bethune where the Hampshire Regiment where fighting in 1918. There is also another conflicting facts, on a note given to my Gran showing where he is buried. It states that he was in the 10th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Where as the death scroll that I have states he was in the Hampshire's and his Reg No was 230188, where on Ancestry it has his Reg no as 44315. It looks as if I will have to pay a visit to Kew to find out if they were two different people.
Editor's Note: The information you have does relate to two individuals:
Private 44315 Fred Blewitt of the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, was aged 18 when he died on 22nd of April 1918, he is remembered on the Loos Memorial his remains not being recovered from the battlefield. He was the brother of Mr. R. A. Blewett, of 18, Gworus St., Penzance.
Private 230188 Frederick Blewitt was a territorial with the 1st Shropshire Yeomanry, he went to France on the 16th of June 1915. Whilst serving with the 10th Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry, he died on the 9th of November 1918 whilst being treated at 54th Casualty Clearing Station and is buried at Cambrin. He lived in Preston Brockhurst and had enlisted in Lichfield. His father's name was Thomas.
Related Content:
Can you help us to add to our records?
The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them
Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial?
If so please let us know.
Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?"We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember.
Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice.
Celebrate your own Family History
Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc.
Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.
This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.
If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Hosted by:
The Wartime Memories Project Website
is archived for preservation by the British Library
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
- All Rights Reserved -We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.
