Private 16903 Thomas Headen LEWIS

Died of Wounds, Wednesday 17th July 1918, a PoW, Dulmen, Germany, Age 22

Home address:

12 Alfred Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1896, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Eliza H. Lewis, later Eliza H Savage, and George Lewis
31 George Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Felt Hatter

Enlisted:

Hyde, Cheshire

Remembered:

Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany, plot X, row B, grave 3.

Link to Hyde:

Born in Hyde

Awarded the Military Medal.

Died a Prisoner of War.

In the 1921 Cenotaph Unveiling Booklet his name is shown as Thomas Lewis.

The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother:

AS A BOY, SO THE MAN
MOTHER