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LEWIS, Harold John
(Service number 3/103A)

Private H J Lewis — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Waimataitai School War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/09/1894	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	13 August 1914	Age	19
Address at Enlistment	Trafalgar St, Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Engineer for Christchurch Meat Co, Smithfield, Timaru
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Alice Lewis (Mother) 17 Trafalgar St., Timaru, New Zealand
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	5 ft 7 1/2 inches. 142 lbs. Fair complexion. Gray eyes. Dark brown hair.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Medical Corps
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Vessel unknown
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Medical Corps

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	20 November 1914	Age	20
Place of Death	At sea from New Zealand en route to Egypt on board Mauganui
Cause	Died of disease - Influenza complicated pneumonia
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Canterbury Provincial Memorial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimataitai School War Memorial; Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of John and Alice Lewis of Maori Hill Gardens, Timaru. New Zealand.

Lewis was listed in the 1910 Timaru Technical School as being of Maori Hill [Timaru]. He was studying Electricity and was working as an Engineers Assistant. His age was given (in 1910) as 15 years and 10 months. Lewsi's serial number is given as 3/1032a in the NZEF Nomianl Rolls, but 3/1032 on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website (2014)

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014); Timaru Technical School roll book (SCRoll submission from J James, Mountainview High School, 18 March 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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