Lot Essay
INDENTCaptain John Keith Mews, educated at Harrow, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 1st City of London Regiment July 1914, despatched to Malta with his Bn. in September and arrived in France March, 1915; Captain and Adjutant the following year; was seriously wounded at Combles, September 1916, was invalided and returned to France to active service July 1918. He was mortally wounded by a machine gun bullet while leading his Company in an attack near Croisilles 24 August 1918 and died in an ambulance from loss of blood three hours later - this was his first action after returning to France. Captain Mews was buried in Bac-Du-Sud British Cemetery, France (Harrow Memorial Book for the Great War refers)
Second Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Ingram Stevens of Golders Green, London, attended London University before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, 6 September 1914. He was killed in action in the enemy trenches near Pozières on the Somme, 4 August, 1916 and was buried in Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boiselle, France
Second Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Ingram Stevens of Golders Green, London, attended London University before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, 6 September 1914. He was killed in action in the enemy trenches near Pozières on the Somme, 4 August, 1916 and was buried in Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boiselle, France