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      MARCH 2025 UPDATE #1
      VICTORY MEDAL to CAPT Telford HEWSON. Born Bombay. British Latin American Volunteer who went to F...
      VICTORY MEDAL to CAPT Telford HEWSON. Born Bombay. British Latin American Volunteer who went to F...
      VICTORY MEDAL to CAPT Telford HEWSON. Born Bombay. British Latin American Volunteer who went to F...
      VICTORY MEDAL to CAPT Telford HEWSON. Born Bombay. British Latin American Volunteer who went to F...
      VICTORY MEDAL to CAPT Telford HEWSON. Born Bombay. British Latin American Volunteer who went to F...

      VICTORY MEDAL to CAPT Telford HEWSON. Born Bombay. British Latin American Volunteer who went to France 16/9/16 & served with 113th Coy, Royal Engineers. Later Director of Industrial Training of disabled soldiers, CPRE Official & Special Constable

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      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

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