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Farrier-Sergeant Thomas Henry Lewis

 

Number: 29472

Company: 60th (North Irish Horse) Company (Belfast) (New), 17th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 28 February 1901

Place: Curragh

Age: 26 years

Trade of calling: Farrier

Place of birth: In the Parish of Chicago, in or near the Town of Chicago, in the United States of America.

Family: Single. Father William Lewis, farrier, mother Margaret Catherine Lewis (nee Watters), of John Street, Kilkenny. Five siblings (1911 Census shows only two still living).

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 9 1/2". Complexion pale, eyes brown, hair brown. Anchor and dot tattooed on the back of left forearm; a dot tattooed on back of left hand; toes of left foot a little crowded, the third toe is partially contracted.

Religion: Church of Ireland

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 12 March 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal clasps.

DEATH

Date: 3 January 1902

Place: No.11 Stationary Hospital, Winburg

Cause: Enteric fever

Buried/ commemorated: Winburg Old Cemetery/ Winburg Garden of Remembrance.

 

Kilkenny Moderator, 11 January 1902

 

Kilkenny Moderator, 15 January 1902

 

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