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ROWLAND LEWIS (1907-1910 : 22),
Private in the 14th (King’s Own) Hussars was the younger son of Mr
John Lewis of the Verlands, Prestwood Road, Wolverhampton.
From the school he went to a farm in England and soon afterwards sailed
for Cananda. There, in order to fit
himself for the great possibilities of what he intended to be his life work, he
became a student in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Winnipeg.
His wish to enlist on the outbreak of war was thwarted by the fact that
the battalions were full. He
therefore joined the Officers’ Training Corps of his University but found this
too remote from actuality and so sailed for England.
Arriving at Liverpool in January 1916, he joined the 20th
Hussars in the following month, was transferred in August to the 14th
Hussars, and in September left for Mesopotamia. In the brilliant cavalry work during the advance to and the
operations round Baghdad he bore his part nobly. The precise circumstances of his death have never been
ascertained, but it is known that he was swimming in the Tigris on August 30th
1917, and that in consequence of the fracturing of his spine he was drowned.
His body of robust build and sterling good nature, he had developed into
fine manhood and was marked out for early promotion.
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