LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Robert Leonard JEWSON
Service No: 45128
Born: Northam WA, 3 September 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 June 1941
Unit: No. 5 Personnel Deport, Subiaco WA
Died: Illness, Cottesloe WA, 24 October 1945, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Karrakatta War Cemetery WA
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert William and Minnie Olive Jewson, of Victoria Park.
Roll of Honour: Victoria Park WA
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On 24 October 1945, Corporal Jewson, a Cook, was found dead by the Civil Police on the lawn outside the Ocean Beach Hotel at Cottesloe, WA.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board (Perth) On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia A705, 166/20/341