26531 Sapper E Hewitt (not A Hewett as on the memorial), C Pontoon Troop, 37th Field Company, Royal Engineers. He deployed with his company to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, joining the Natal Task Force. Died from enteric fever (typhoid) at the Convent Hospital/No 7 General Hospital, Estcourt, Natal. He is also commemorated on the Royal Engineers South African Memorial Arch in Brompton Barracks, Gillingham, Kent (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/131150/).
26531 Sapper E Hewitt (not A Hewett as on the memorial), C Pontoon Troop, 37th Field Company, Royal Engineers. He deployed with his company to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, joining the Natal Task Force. Died from enteric fever (typhoid) at the Convent Hospital/No 7 General Hospital, Estcourt, Natal. He is also commemorated on the Royal Engineers South African Memorial Arch in Brompton Barracks, Gillingham, Kent (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/131150/).
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