LEWIN Charles
12/1699 Private, 1st Battalion, Auckland Regiment, WWI
18243 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION
Military Medal
Gazetted 11 October 1916, p9839
At Quin's Post on 3 June 1915, he showed great courage and coolness in picking up and returning enemy bombs.

KNOWN AWARDS
Military Medal
1914-1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal

NOTES
Born 20 August 1889 London, England
Died 25 August 1944 Auckland, New Zealand
Buried Waikumete Cemetery, [Service Persons Area G, Row 6, Plot 54]
BATTLE HONOURS
Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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