JEWKES Alwyne Victor

A.V. Jewkes 1st/1st Worcester Yeomanry, 1st Draft, embarked at Devonport 23rd October 1915 for service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, disembarked at Mudros 6th November 1915, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on 30th November 1915. Killed in action on 23rd April 1916.

Source for additional information: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914 – 1922.

A photograph of Trooper A.V. Jewkes can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 13th May 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

The following information is courtesy and copyright of Jennifer Kokany, great niece of Alwyne and Archibald Jewkes:
Alwyne and his brother Archibald were both killed on the same day in 1916 whilst serving with the Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars. Previously they had been at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in 1915 before being sent to the area near Romani, east of Suez. My father who was born that same year was named Archibald Alwyne in memory of the brothers he would never know.

Archibald and Alwyne Jewkes
Photograph Courtesy of Jennifer Kokany

Original Memorial Cross to the Men of the QOWH who lost their lives on 23rd April 1916. Photograph Courtesy of Jennifer Kokany

Alwyne Jewkes name on Jerusalem Memorial. Photograph Courtesy & Copyright of Jennifer Kokany