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Lieutenant Henry Spencer Ewen

1/23 Battalion, London Regiment

 

Lt Ewen was awarded the Military Cross on 8 December 1917. He was killed in action, aged 29, at Aveluy Wood, near Albert, France, on 5 April 1918. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

 

Photograph presented by his mother, Mrs Ewen of Kingsdown.

 

Faces of the First World War

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This image is from IWM Collections.

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