Name: LEWIS, JOHN

Initials: J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Welsh Regiment

Unit Text: 6th Bn.

Age: 47

Date of Death: 20/10/1915

Service No: 2940

Additional information: Husband of Mary Jane Lewis, of 8, Pant St., Danygraig, Swansea.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 79.

Cemetery: TALGARTH MENTAL HOSPITAL CEMETERY

The battalion he served in

1/6th (Glamorgan) Battalion

August 1914 : in Swansea. Part of South Wales Brigade, which was unallocated to a Division.

29 October 1914 : landed at Le Havre and moved to work on Lines of Communication.

5 July 1915 : attached to 84th Brigade in 28th Division.

23 October 1915 : transferred to 3rd Brigade in 1st Division.
15 May 1916 : became Pioneer Battalion to 1st Division with which it then remained.