Joseph Hewitt

Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium

Joseph Hewitt

Private No. 19241 15th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment; previously 223555 Labour Corps.

Killed in action in Belgium 14 October 1918. Age 22.

Buried in Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium. IV. D. 29.

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Born in Shocklach in 1896.

Eldest son of David and Edith Hewitt of Bradley Brook, Malpas. 

Joseph had an older stepbrother, William Fairbrother.

The 1911 Census shows Joseph as a general farm lad working on Whalebone Farm, Willington, Malpas.

The December 1918 Malpas Deanery Magazine records:  "Joseph Hewitt recently lived in Tushingham parish" but as boy attended Malpas School.