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(Pte) Henry John Hewish
Private Henry John Hewish, 10th Battalion. A railway employee from Alberton, South Australia, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 11 January 1916 aboard HMAT Borda (A30) for Suez.
| Regimental number | 4190 |
| Date of birth | 20 March 1889 |
| Place of birth | Thebarton, South Australia |
| School | Port Adelaide Public School, South Australia |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | South Australian Railways employee |
| Address | Lyons Street, Yatala, Alberton, South Australia |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 26 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs J Hewish, Yatala, Alberton, South Australia |
| Enlistment date | 25-Aug-15 |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | 11-Aug-15 |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 10th Battalion, 13th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/27/4 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A30 Borda on 11 January 1916 |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 50th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action 28 September 1917 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium |
| The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. | |
| The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. | |
| The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. | |
| Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. | |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, | 150 |
| Australian War Memorial | |
| Other details | War service: Western Front |
| Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
ID number P09291.328
Collection Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Photographer Unknown
Date made c December 1915
DescriptionStudio portrait of 4190 Private (Pte) Henry John Hewish, 10th Battalion. A railway employee from Alberton, South Australia, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 13th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 11 January 1916 aboard HMAT Borda (A30) for Suez. In late February 1916 he was transferred to the 50th Battalion which relocated to the Western Front, France, in early June 1916.
Pte Hewish was appointed Lance Corporal (L Cpl) on 1 July 1916 and nine days later was hospitalised with tonsillitis followed shortly afterwards by influenza before rejoining his unit in early September 1916. L Cpl Hewish suffered a second, severe bout of influenza in late March 1917 and was evacuated to England for treatment, recuperation and furlough.
He rejoined his unit on 10 September 1916 and was then appointed Temporary Corporal. Cpl Hewish was killed in action near Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 28 September 1917. He has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. He was aged 28 years.
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