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William EWART

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Surname: EWART

Forename(s): William

Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire

Service No: 3/1529

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)

Battalion / Unit: 'A' Coy 9th (Service) Battalion

Division: 21st Division

Age: 20

Date of Death: 1916-06-05

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: A. 54

CWGC Cemetery: LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE

CWGC Memorial: ---

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)

Additional Information:

William Ewart was the son of William and Janet Ewart, née Maxwell and brother of Gunner James Ewart (34518) (q.v.) and Gunner Robert Ewart (167696) (q.v.). Their father was born at Eskdalemuir, Dumfreisshire and mother at Stobhill, Gorebridge, Midlothian.

1901 Settle, Yorkshire Census: New Road - William Ewart, aged 5 years, born Settle, son of William and Janet Ewart.

1911 Batley, Yorkshire Census: 69, Warwick Road, Batley Carr - William Ewart, aged 15 years, born Settle, Yorkshire, son of William and Janet Ewart.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte William Ewart, 3/1529, Yorks L. I. Theatre of War (1) France. Qualifying date [for 1914-15 Star]: 13.10.15. D. of W.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte William Ewart, 3/1529, 9th Yorks L. I. D. of Wds. 5.6.16.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte William Ewart, 3/1529, 9th Bn K.O.Y.L.I. Date and Place of Death: 5.6.16. 21 C.C.S. (Wounds). To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother and Sole Legatee - Janet. £16 11s. 5d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: joint card(s) exist for William and James. Name(s) on card(s): Name of Dependant: Mr William Ewart. Relationship to Man: Father. Particulars of Claimant(s): Mrs Janet Ewart. Address: 9, Thornfield, Savile Town, Dewsbury.

William is commemorated on Batley War Memorial.

Data Source: Craven Herald Article

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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 21st Division

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 21st Division

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Surname: EWART

Forename(s): William

Born: Batley

Residence:

Enlisted: Dewsbury

Number: 3/1520

Rank: Private

Regiment: King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)

Battalion: 9th Battalion

Decorations:

Died Date: 05/06/16

Died How: Died of wounds

Theatre of War: France & Flanders

Notes:

Data from Commonwealth War Graves Commission Records

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Surname: EWART

Forename(s): William

Country of Service: United Kingdom

Service Number: 3/1529

Rank: Private

Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Unit: "A" Coy. 9th Bn.

Age: 20

Awards:

Died Date: 05/06/1916

Additional Information: Son of William and Janet Ewart, of 9, Thornfield, Savile Town, Dewsbury, Yorks. (CWGC Headstone Personal Inscription: REST IN PEACE)

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Newspaper Article (1918)

PATRIOTIC BATLEY FAMILY

THREE DEAD, ONE DISCHARGED AND THREE SERVING

Gunner Robert Ewart (27), R.G.A. (eldest son of ex-Sergt. and Mrs. Ewart, of Thornfields, Savile Town, and formerly of Batley), whose wife and two children live at Oldroyd’s Place, Mount Street, Batley, has died in France from influenza and pneumonia. The news is contained in a letter from a chaplain, who says that Pte. Ewart was admitted into hospital on November 1st and died on the 6th. Pte. Ewart enlisted nearly eighteen months ago, and went to France in April of this year. Before joining the Army he was a firer in the employ of Messrs. J. Newsome and Sons, Batley Carr, and was a member of the Dewsbury branch of the Engineers and Firers’ Association. He attended St. Andrew’s Church, Batley, and was a well-known member of the Batley Carr Working Men’s Club. Pte. Robert Ewart is the third of a family of seven soldier brothers to pay the supreme sacrifice, Pte Willie Ewart died of wounds in June, 1916, and Gunner James Ewart also died of wounds in October of last year. Three brothers are still serving–Tom, who is at present with the Forces in India; John, who is serving in France; and Alec, who is training in England; while yet another brother, Eddie, has been discharged from the Army.

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02 November 1917

A FORMER SETTLE POLICEMAN’S SACRIFICE

Deep sympathy will be felt for Police Sergeant and Mrs. Ewart, of Batley, two of whose six sons have been killed at the Front. Their son, Private William Ewart, fell in action in June 1916, and now Gunner James Ewart, R.F.A., has died in France. Of the four other sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ewart still with the forces, Gunner Tom Ewart, R.F.A., is in India recovering from fever contracted in Mesopotamia. He has also seen service in France. Private John Ewart is in France with the K.O.Y.L.I., and Gunner Robert Ewart, R.G.A., and Private Ed. Ewart, Queen’s Yorkshire Dragoons, are in training in England. Police-Sergeant and Mrs. Ewart will be well remembered when the sergeant was a policeman at Settle and lived at the Police Station not many years ago. Most of these soldier sons will be remembered by Settle people.

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02 November 1917

SETTLE

A FORMER SETTLE POLICEMAN’S SACRIFICE – Deep sympathy will be felt for Police Sergeant and Mrs. Ewart, of Batley, two of whose six sons have been killed at the front. Their son, Private William Ewart, fell in action in June, 1916, and now Gunner James Ewart. R.F.A., has died in France. Of the four other sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ewart still with the forces, Gunner Tom Ewart, R.F.A., is in India recovering from fever contracted in Mesopotamia. He has also seen service in France. Private John Ewart is in France with the K.O.Y.L.I., and Gunner Robert Ewart, R.G.A., and Private George Ed. Ewart, Queen’s Yorkshire Dragoons, are in training in England. Police Sergeant and Mrs. Ewart will be well remembered when the sergeant was a policeman at Settle and lived at the Police Station not many years ago. Most of these soldier sons will be remembered by the Settle people.

04 January 1918

SETTLE’S FALLEN HEROES

Memorial Service at the Parish Church

A memorial service for the Settle soldiers who have fallen in the war was held at the Parish Church last Sunday afternoon. There was a large congregation, and the service was conducted by Rev. W. E. Linney (vicar). The hymns ‘God of the living in Whose eyes,’ ‘Jesus lives,’ ‘On the resurrection morn,’ and ‘ O God our help in aged past’ were sung, and the ‘Last Post’ was sounded at the close of the service by two of the local Cadets. The organist (Mr. F. Lord) also played appropriate music as the congregation assembled and left the church.

The Vicar, in the course of his sermon, said they were met to remember the Settle soldiers, men, and boys – some indeed little more than boys – who had laid down their lives for the country at the war, whether during the year which was just drawing to a close or in the earlier stages of the conflict. When he asked them to remember those heroes that day, he knew that he was asking them to do what they were always doing. They were their own dear ones united to many of them by ties of blood – husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as friends. How could they forget them? Were they not reminded of them day by day by the gaps in their home circles, which could never again be filled by them? They all desired in their hearts that God would bless and keep them, and give them peace. and happiness. The Vicar then read the following list of the Settle men who had laid down their lives:– John Edward Bell, Geo. S. Belles, Fredk. Baldwin, John Barrett, Robert Bateson, William Bradley, Frank Bulcock, George R. Bullock, Herbert Clark, John Cokell, Edward Ellershaw, Jas. Ewart, Wm. Ewart, Fredk. Frost, Harold Goss, Alfred Gower, Joseph Lord, John Morphet, John Packard, Chas. Peachey, Thomas Howarth Preston, Albert Ralph, Thos. Stackhouse, George Edward Turner, Derwent Turnbull, Wm. Troughton, Harry Walton, John Edward Wilson, Ernest Wooff, and Robert Wooff. Proceeding, the Vicar said they had a responsibility with regard to those men. They owed them a debt, and he trusted and believed that they were wishful to do all that they could to repay it. “ Our lives are being saved by their death. If we have any future before us on the earth it is because they gave up their futures to secure it. Their right to survive was as good as our own. Many of them would have been of far more use in the world than we can hope to be. The future stands to be only poorer for our surviving in their stead. We are debtors to them for all they have given us. To the future think of all it has lost in them.” How were they going to pay the debt, and in paying it to honour their heroic dead? Surely there could be but one answer – to live to give effect to their ideals. When they were asked what those ideals were, they might be well put in the words of Bishop Walshaw How’s hymn written for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, “To make the world a better world for man’s brief earthly dwelling.” If Prussian militarism should gain the ascendancy the world would be scarcely a fit place to live in. What they wanted was the triumph of right and liberty. That was the task they had begun, and many of them, fired by the enthusiasm of a noble cause, literally went singing to their death. The old life which had no loftier aim than a high standard of material comfort had been felt to be unsatisfactory. To ardent youth the higher spirit of self-sacrifice, which was the spirit of Christ, beckoned onward with irresistible attractiveness, and they followed the gleam. They had yet to complete the great task to which they dedicated themselves. That was the way they could honour the memory of their fallen heroes, and with confidence that they had not died in vain.

A collection taken on behalf of the Red Cross Society realised £5 15s.

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