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Owen Gower LEWIS

Regimental number10181
Place of birthElsternwick Victoria
SchoolChurch Grammar School, Launceston, Tasmania; Wesley College, Melbourne, Victoria
Other trainingEngineering School, University of Melbourne, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationStudent engineering
Address41 Kooyong Road, Armadale, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, James Bannantyne Lewis, 41 Kooyong Road, Armadale, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed as Lieutenant, Melbourne University Rifles, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date3 January 1916
Rank on enlistment2nd Corporal
Unit name10th Field Company Engineers
AWM Embarkation Roll number14/29/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic on 20 June 1916
Regimental number from Nominal RollCommissioned
Rank from Nominal RollLieutenant
Unit from Nominal RollAustralian Flying Corps
FateKilled in Action 12 April 1918
Place of burialVignacourt British Cemetery (Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 21), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
188
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated on 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, Roll of Honour, Shrine of Memories, Anzac Square, Brisbane, Queensland. Parents: James and Edith LEWIS, 41 Kooyong Road, Armadale, Victoria. Native of Elsternwick, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrothers: [32312] Lt Athol Hugh LEWIS, 3rd Division Artillery, returned to Australia, 16 March 1919;
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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