Private Clarence Edward Hewitt

Army Number: 16267

Battalion : 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire and lived at Old Whittington, Derbyshire. Son of Robert and Bertha Hewitt, of 60 Whittington Hill, Old Whittington. He was a shovel maker prior to enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 16th February 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Clarence Edward Hewitt is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Old Whittington War Memorial, Old Whittington, Derbyshire.