Cheltenham Cemetery

Bouncer's Lane, Cheltenham

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Captain Henry Wycliffe BREWIS is buried in Plot B1.1213.

He was born at Islington, London on 8th May 1894.

He enlisted into the Army on 15th September 1914 as a Private soldier in the 19th (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (2nd Public Schools) and was later granted a Temporary Regular Commission in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 29th December 1914.

On 23rd July 1916 he was serving as a Company Commander with 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and the unit was attacking the German trenches at "Switch Line"  south of Martinpuich, and he showed conspicuous gallantry in action leading his Company in taking enemy positions.   He was subsequently awarded a Military Cross which was promulgated in the London Gazette published on 22nd September 1916.

He was later posted for duty with 2/1st Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons in Ireland and on 1st June 1918 was seriously injured in a road traffic accident at the village of Ballin.......... and was admitted to the Military Hospital at Fermoy, County Cork.   He subsequently died as a result of these injuries on 4th June 1918.

He was buried in Cheltenham Cemetery in a War Graves plot on 8th June 1918.   Subsequently, his sisters Eleanor and Robina were buried in the same plot.   He was 24 years of age.

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