Medals

Name

Alfred Hewitt

Service number

DLI 3645

Northumberland Fusiliers 35365

Royal Flying Corp/ Royal Air Force 148020

Rank – including any

promotions, with dates

Private

Regiment

Battalion

Change of Service

From 23.03.1918 – Royal Flying Corp

From 01.04/1918 – Royal Air Force

Transferred to RAF Reserve, 09/04/1919 –

Discharged from RAF Reserve 30/04/1920 – Appointed Class F Reservist at discharge

Postings

3645 DLI – France 07/07/1916 – 03/09/1916

Wounds

Gun shot wound to left leg and face

Silver War Badge? (WWI)

PoW Info. Etc.

Date of Discharge

Other Information

Birthplace

Date of birth

18/01/1889

Enlisted

RAF records – 10 April 1915

Lived

1911 – 24 Brougham Place, South Road, Bishop Auckland

Parents

Alfred and Annie Hewitt ( Confectioner)

Annie listed as sugar boiler

 + address

1891 census living at Mission Road Yard in 3 rooms

Wife

Florence Ethel Potts married  26/11/1910

 + address

8 South Road, Back Side, Bishop Auckland

Children

Annie Ethel born 03/08/1919

Occupation

Boiler Smith

Medals – held in

collection

Citations

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Medals – others awarded but

not held in collection

Citations/Notes

Notes from Peter Nelson

On discharge from RAF – Many men served, initially, in the DLI regiment but then chose to be seconded from the army and join a new branch of the army, the Royal Flying Corps, which was created principally to assist the artillery in spotting targets and firing more accurately. When the new Military Service, the Royal Air Force, was created, on the 1st April 1918, from that army branch, the RFC men had to choose either to return to their army rank and role or leave the army and become a member of the new Service. Navy personnel who had served with the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) had a similar choice – go back to being Navy or become RAF.Appointed as a Class F Reservist

How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action

Date of death

1954

Age

65

Memorial

Cemetery – plot, row and grave