Sunday, 17 October 2010

8893 Cpl John S Jewson, 2nd Bn, Scots Guards

8893 Corporal John Samuel Jewson of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards was killed in action on the 17th October 1915. He was born in Shoreditch, lived in Bethnal Greeen and enlisted at Stratford. At the time of his death, John was 19 years old. He was the son of John and Rose Jewson of 4 Mansford Street Buildings, Bethnal Green Road, London. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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