Sapper LEWIS, Ruardean? 1918 (General)

by dink999, Saturday, February 15, 2014, 16:57 (3935 days ago)

From this article in the Monmouth Advertiser on 24 May 1918 I wonder if some one could try and work out the soldiers first name, so that I can see if I need to add him to the database

SOLDIER SEWN IN BEDTICK.

At Littledean, Rosina Lewis, a sappers wife of Ruardean, Gloucestershire, was sent to prison for seven days for aiding her husband in being a deserter from the Army. On three occasions, when Lewis had been home on leave from France, he had to be fetched by a military escort. He was due back in France last February, but as he failed to return a visit was made to his house, when his wife assured the police that Lewis was not in the house. A search was made, and the deserter was found sewn up inside the tick of the bed, on which his mother and four children were lying.