Watkin Eldridge Lewis

Forenames

Watkin Eldridge AWMM

Surname

Lewis AWMM

Also known as

• Watkins AWMM
• Watkins Eldridge AWMM

Service number

• WWI 10/2208 AWMM
• WWI 10/220 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre Jan 1915 AWMM 66 Bell Street, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Margaret Lewis (wife), 66A Bell Street, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Married AWMM
Married, 2 children AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 10/2208 AWMM
• WWI 10/220 AWMM

Military service

• Mounted Police, South Africa AWMM
• A Company, 7 (WWC) Regiment, Quarter Master Sergeant AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Jan 1915 AWMM
Age  38 AWMM
Carpenter/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 13 Jun 1915-24 Jul 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 24 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Sergeant AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  6 foot 2 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  200 pounds AWMM
• Dental, Unknown Period AWMM
  All artificial AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Reported wounded September 1915 AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Reported wounded, no further reports, December 1915 AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Board of Enquiry held 16 January 1916 believed dead on or about 8 August 1915 AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and William Allenworth Lewis

Husband of Margaret Lewis (nee Fyfe) of 48 Clarence Street, Hamilton. Father of Watkin Willam Lewis (b 1897) and Owen Redvers Lewis (b 1900)

He is commemorated on one of the bells, given by his sisters and brothers for the National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington. Brothers Samuel Lees Eldridge Lewis, Tom Eldridge Lewis and Watkin Eldridge Lewis are commemorated on the same bell.

Name incorrectly typed as Watkins on the Nominal Roll. AWMM

Death

8 Aug 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• National War Memorial Carillon, 41 Buckle Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10919416
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture and Heritage. The National War Memorial, The Carillon, Hall of Memories, The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, National War Memorial Park, Wellington.
  http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680116/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680116
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 24. Maunganuian : one of the many unofficial journals of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. (1915). At sea: Fifth Reinforcements. Printe by W.F. Forster and Co., Albany.
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 417
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.