8th (Service) Battalion
Aug 1914 Formed at Lichfield as part of the Second New Army (K2) and then moved to Wareham to join the 51st Brigade of the 17th Division and then moved to Lulworth and Wool.
June 1915 Moved to Winchester.
14.07.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and the Division engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Delville Wood.
During 1917
The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The Capture of Roeux, The First and Second Battles of Passchendaele.
23.02.1918 Disbanded in France and remaining personnel transferred to the 2/7th and 7th Battalions and the 7th Entrenching Battalion.
Son of Christopher and Elizabeth Hewetson, of Cumberland; husband of Prudence Eleanor Hewetson, of Beverley. Mentioned in Despatches. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE COTTINGHAM METHODIST CHURCH WW1 PLAQUE.
