SHEFFIELD - SOUTH YORKSHIRE
St Peter & St. Oswald Church, Abbeydale Road
St Peter & St. Oswald Church, Abbeydale Road
When St Peter's Church was demolished this Honour Roll was placed in St. Oswald's Church
Corporal Callis Sewell 2790
Born: Hasland, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Enlisted: 3-9-1915, Holdsworthy, New South Wales
Occupation prior to Enlistment: Porter
19th Battalion Australian Infantry
Departed Australia from Sydney, N.S.W. 2-11-1915
Killed in Action 3-5-1917, France
Son of George Sewell
Honoured: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 89
Born: Hasland, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Enlisted: 3-9-1915, Holdsworthy, New South Wales
Occupation prior to Enlistment: Porter
19th Battalion Australian Infantry
Departed Australia from Sydney, N.S.W. 2-11-1915
Killed in Action 3-5-1917, France
Son of George Sewell
Honoured: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 89
The Beverley Times (W.A.) 12-5-1917
The Late Private E, Sewell.
A COMRADE'S TRIBUTE.
Mrs. H. E. Sewell, of Dulbelling, has received the following letter from Corporal F. W. Phillips concerning the death in action of her son, Private Ernest Sewell:--
March 11th, 1917.
Dear Mrs Sewell,—Writing to you makes me feel a little reticent because of the mission that I am on, but the task is the lighter when l am able to tell you that your son Ernest's death was practically painless and sudden. He was killed in action on February 27th, at about 9 a.m. He was always eager to play the part of an active soldier, and whenever the occasion arose he never failed to give a god account of himself.
It was the day previous to his death that we moved forward to go into a certain engagement in which your son figured quite prominently. It was
when the engagement was practically over, but shelling from the enemy was erratic and fairly severe. One shell burst very close to us, and your son and one other fellow sustained wounds. We carried Ernest in under cover and dressed his wounds, which were in the thigh, and he passed away about ten minutes later while practically unconscious. The shell exploded so near Ernest that I believe his head must have sustained to a great extent the concussion of the shells explosion, thus rendering him unconscious and shortening his end. Your son always looked at the life of a soldier in the aspect of something noble and gallant, and I can conscientiously say that there are very few men I have met who have lived up to his ideal more than he. He was a good lad with high motives, and a good comrade. With you and your family I mourn your loss. All his
personal effects (pay book, wallet, etc. ) I handed into the orderly room, He was left in a dug out, with name, number and regiment, where he would get a burial and a cross to mark the resting place. I am asked by all the bombers and those who knew him to tender their sympathy to you all in your irreparable loss.
The Late Private E, Sewell.
A COMRADE'S TRIBUTE.
Mrs. H. E. Sewell, of Dulbelling, has received the following letter from Corporal F. W. Phillips concerning the death in action of her son, Private Ernest Sewell:--
March 11th, 1917.
Dear Mrs Sewell,—Writing to you makes me feel a little reticent because of the mission that I am on, but the task is the lighter when l am able to tell you that your son Ernest's death was practically painless and sudden. He was killed in action on February 27th, at about 9 a.m. He was always eager to play the part of an active soldier, and whenever the occasion arose he never failed to give a god account of himself.
It was the day previous to his death that we moved forward to go into a certain engagement in which your son figured quite prominently. It was
when the engagement was practically over, but shelling from the enemy was erratic and fairly severe. One shell burst very close to us, and your son and one other fellow sustained wounds. We carried Ernest in under cover and dressed his wounds, which were in the thigh, and he passed away about ten minutes later while practically unconscious. The shell exploded so near Ernest that I believe his head must have sustained to a great extent the concussion of the shells explosion, thus rendering him unconscious and shortening his end. Your son always looked at the life of a soldier in the aspect of something noble and gallant, and I can conscientiously say that there are very few men I have met who have lived up to his ideal more than he. He was a good lad with high motives, and a good comrade. With you and your family I mourn your loss. All his
personal effects (pay book, wallet, etc. ) I handed into the orderly room, He was left in a dug out, with name, number and regiment, where he would get a burial and a cross to mark the resting place. I am asked by all the bombers and those who knew him to tender their sympathy to you all in your irreparable loss.