Lives of the First World War

known 18th June 1918

The June 18, 1918, edition of the Market Harborough Advertiser reports the deaths of Private Ewart Owen, son of the Rev D Owen of Market Harborough, and Major J Hugh Jerwood, son of the Canon T F Jerwood of Little Bowden. Private Owen, who it appears had a troubled past, ‘was killed instantaneously by a shell whilst in a communication trench’. The report says Owen finished his education at Northampton Town and County School but then suffered ‘a nerve breakdown and was sent to Australia for his health’. He apparently tried to enlist in the Australian Army several times and was eventually accepted in 1916.

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