Roger's Grandfather. Private - Scottish Rifles

Lewis was a career soldier first enlisting in 1907. He was killed in action in 1916 and is remembered on the Thiepval Arch. His body was never found or if it was, he could not be identified.

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. This is the largest British war memorial in the world

Lewis's name is engraved on PIllar D South. At the time of our visit, the arch was undergoing some needed renovations and so we could not see his name, we chose another headstone to remember him by