BORN HULL 1895. SECOND SON OF THE LATE JOHN WILLIAM HEWITT AND MARY JANE HEWITT, OF 20 TOMLINSON STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A FISHERMAN AND 2ND OFFICER, RNR, HMS ‘SEA LION’. HE HAD AN OLDER BROTHER, JOHN WILLIAM HEWITT & THREE YOUNGER SISTERS, OLIVE, ADA AND EVA. EMPLOYED AS A ROPE RUNNER (1911) AND FOR THE IDEAL BOLER COMPANY, NATIONAL AVENUE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 03/10/1916. DESCRIBED AS 4 FOOT 11 INCHES TALL, 34 INCH CHEST, 110 LBS. HIS MOTHER DIED OF BRONCHITIS ON 15/12/1916. POSTED TO FRANCE, 23/01/1917. KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS, 24/04/1917, AGED 21. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND HIS WILL WAS DIVIDED EVENLY BETWEEN HIS BROTHER AND THREE SISTER AT THIS ADDRESS.
HIS NAME IS LISTED WITH 46 EMPLOYEES, ON HULL’S IDEAL BOILER AND RADIATOR LIMITED, WW1 MEMORIAL, NATIONAL AVENUE, HULL.
