LEWIS, John Norton
(Service number 6/3976)
| First Rank | Quartermaster Sergeant | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 29 October 1892 | Place of Birth | Wales |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | 33 Wilson Street, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Grocer | ||
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| Marital Status | |||
| Next of Kin | Mrs E. SUMPTER (mother), 33 Wilson Street, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 10th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company | ||
| Date | 4 March 1916 | ||
| Transport | Willochra | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Suez, Egypt | |
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Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 20 September 1966 | Age | 73 years |
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| Place of Death | Auckland | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Purewa Crematorium; ashes interred Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland | ||
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Biographical Notes
John Norton Lewis was born on 29 October 1892 at Towyn, Merionethshire, Wales, the son of John Humphrey and Ellen Elizabeth Lewis. In 1901 he was at home at Towyn, with his widowed mother, a lodging house keeper, and his older brother, David Llewellyn Lewis. John Humphrey Lewis had died at Towyn on 12 November 1895, when David and John were very young. It is likely that Ellen Elizabeth Lewis, with her two sons, had come to New Zealand by 1911. In 1914 she married Francis Sumpter, and she was next-of-kin for John (not a sister). John was living at home in Timaru, a grocer with CFCA, and was among the recruits passed by the medical men in Timaru in mid July 1915. He married Lucy Gwendoline Price in 1920. He died on 20 September 1966 at Auckland, aged 73 years. After cremation at Purewa, his ashes were interred in Waikumete Cemetery. Ellen Elizabeth Sumpter died in 1942, and was buried at Timaru, Francis with her. David Llewellyn Lewis, an army officer, died in 1959.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [19 July 2002]; Timaru Herald, 14 July 1915 (Papers Past) [19 July 2020]; 1901 Wales census (ancestry.com.au) [22 July 2020]; Cemetery records [22 July 2020]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [22 July 2020]
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