| Administrative History | Richard Roy Lewer, Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifles, eldest son of Mr H W Lewer, of Priors, Loughton (Essex), was wounded on July 15th, 1916, on the Western Front, and died six days later, aged 26. He had already done useful work in the oil-fields of Burma, Russia, and Western Canada. [obit, PROCEEDINGS, QJGS, vol 73 (1917), lxiv] |