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Captain

Lewis Moysey

Service Number Unknown
Military Unit Royal Army Medical Corps
Date of birth 09 Jul 1869
Date of Death 26 Feb 1918 (49 Years Old)
Place of Birth Leytonstone, Essex
Employment, Education or Hobbies He was educated at Repton School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was a physician and surgeon. He was a member of the Geological Society and his fossil collection was left to the Sedgewick Museum, Cambridge.
Family History

Lewis was the son of John (a technical engineer) and Mary Ellen (née Elliott) Moyser. His parents were both born in 1833, John at Uppingham, Mary Ellen at Leytonstone. They were married at St Clement Dane 16/12/1863 and had four children - Mary Agnes (b.1865), John Henry (b.1866), Emma Lucy (b.1868) and Lewis (b.1869). Lewis married Frances Amelia Noble (b. Whatton, Nottinghamshire, 1870) at Nottingham in 1901. In 1911, they lived at 'St Moritz', 201, Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham along with two female servants. Lewis's effects of £4194/13s/6d were left to his father (Probate, Nottingham, 11/9/1918).

Military History

At the outbreak of war, Lewis was allotted service in the UK with the RAMC. In 1918, he was detailed for duty in the East. He was drowned aboard the hospital ship Glenart Castle which was torpedoed in the Bristol Channel.

Extra Information

Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton He is also commemorated on a memorial at Salcombe, Devon. Research by Peter Gillings

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