CAPT T.HEWSON
Telford Hewson - he was also styled variously as 'John Telford Sidney Hewson' & 'Telford John Sidney Hewson'
Born Bombay, India 22/11/1877
Educated at Bedford, Dulwich College, Monmouth School & the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill
Associate of the Institute of Electrical Engineers 1898
Worked overseas in India & as Chief Construction Engineer for the Central Argentine Railway Company in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1910-14
Volunteered at the outbreak of war & travelled back to Britain to join up as a BLAV - 'British Latin American Volunteer'
Commissioned Temporary Inspector of Works & Honorary Lieut 1/6/15
Served in France 16/9/16 & served with 113th Company, Royal Engineers
Admitted to 31st Ambulance Train with a hernia 19/4/17
Returned to Blighty & then admitted to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank 1/5/17
In September 1919, shortly after his demobilisation, he became Divisional Director of Industrial Training of disabled soldiers in Newcastle
He represented the Thames Valley Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England in the 1930s
In September 1939 he was a Retired Civil Engineer & Special Constable (Sergeant?) living at 45 Church Road, Worthing, Sussex
Stood as the Worthing Ratepayer's League representative in 1945
Died East Preston, Sussex 2/10/48
With copy of his Medal Index card plus an 18 page Digital File of research & newspaper articles
Condition: GVF
