Year of birth: 1897

Place of birth: Margate, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Country: England, United Kingdom

Force: British Expeditionary Force

Rank: Driver

Service number: 169023

Enlistment place: Ramsgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Units:  —  Royal Field Artillery, 84th Ammunition Col.  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 15/10/1917

Place of death: Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, Belgium

Cause of death: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Age: 20

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

Driver Charles Hamond Hewett was part of the 84th Brigade Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery. The Brigade Ammunition Column left on 17 May 1916 to merge with others in the divisional artillery to form the 18th Divisional Ammunition Column. In the war diary of the 18th Divisional Ammunition Column is mentioned that on 15 October 1917 two L.D. are wounded. We presume that Driver Hamond was one of them and was wounded while taking ammunition up to the front. The 84the Brigade R.F.A. was situated south-east of Boesinge which would explain why he was taken to the Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station. Here he succumb of his wounds and was buried at the Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery.

Army Troops. 84 Army Field Artillery Brigade , (The National Archives, KEW (TNA), WO 95/455/7). https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14303 Sources used

Divisional Ammunition Column (18 Division. Divisional Troops. Divisional Ammunition Column), (The National Archives, KEW (TNA), WO 95/2026/2). https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14303 Sources used

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2936162

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=fcecf178-c553-4c67-9698-94762b238dd8

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1848122