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Trooper JAMES HENRY HEWITT

Service Number: 7907106
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

Date of Death

Died 04 September 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL

Plot 13. Row G. Grave 29.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Mary Hewitt, of Bethnal Green, London.
  • Personal Inscription TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE CAME A SUDDEN END; HE DIED AS HE LIVED EVERYONE'S FRIEND
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Buried or commemorated at

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 4039
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