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Pte. Douglas Foxwell Lewis
British Army Gloucester Regiment
from:35 Despenser St, Riverside, Cardiff
My grandfather Douglas Lewis served with the Gloucester Regiment on the Western front from 24th of May 1916. His address on his medal card is listed as 35 Despenser St., Riverside, Cardiff.
My father was born in 1930, At that time my grandfather lived in Penarth.
My father used to tell me that he was a travelling salesman with a furniture company. He suffered lifelong arthritis due to a back injury suffered when a barracks collapsed during WWI.
From everything else my father said about my grandfather, he was quite a joker, a happy go lucky type who seems to have moved past the horrors he experienced during the war.