Private Robert Edward Brewin

Army Number : 14025

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Wigston, Leicester. Son of John and Sarah Ann Brewin, of 14, Moat Street, Wigston, Leicester. He enlisted at Derby and went to France 11th November 1914 and was killed in action, 9th February 1917, age 28, during a raid on the German trenches near Mazingarbe, France.

Buried : Vermelles British Cemetery, France. Plot 5. Row C. Grave 26.

Private Robert Edward Brewin is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
All Saints Church War Memorial, Wigston Magna, Leicestershire.

His brother Private Joseph Brewin, 2nd  Battalion Durham Light Infantry, also fell in the Great War.