Samuel Lees Eldridge Lewis

Forenames

Samuel Lees Eldridge AWMM

Surname

Lewis AWMM

Also known as

• Samuel Eldridge Lewis AWMM
• Samuel Lees Oldridge Lewis AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1883 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Emma Lewis (wife), High Street, Marton, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 27 May 1916 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 54 or HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 4th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Death

5 Apr 1918 AWMM
Age  35 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial, Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM
• National War Memorial Carillon, 41 Buckle Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20524684
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738730/-
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 31
• HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.