3 Brothers All Remembered Charlton Cemetery,London Lieutenant SEWELL, CECIL HAROLD Died 29/08/1918 Aged 23 Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and 3rd (Light) Tank Bn. Tank Corps V C Son of Harry Bolton Sewell and Mary Ann Sewell, of 26 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London. His brothers Harry Kemp Sewell and Herbert Victor Sewell also fell. INSCRIPTION ALSO IN MEMORY OF LIEUT H.V. SEWELL ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY KILLED 13.11.16. AGE 27 YEARS Buried at VAULX HILL CEMETERY Location: Pas de Calais, France Number of casualties: 600 Cemetery/memorial reference: I. D. 3. CITATION An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 30982, dated 29th Oct., 1918, records the following '' When in command of a section of Whippet Light Tanks in action this officer displayed most conspicuous bravery and initiative in getting out of his own Tank and crossing open ground under heavy shell and machine-gun fire to rescue the crew of another Whippet of his section which had side slipped into a large shell-hole, overturned and taken fire. The door of the Tank having become jammed against the side of the shell-hole, Lt. Sewell, by his own unaided efforts, dug away the entrance to the door and released the crew. In so doing he undoubtedly saved the lives of the officer and men inside the Tank as they could not have got out without his assistance. After having extricated the crew, seeing one of his own crew lying wounded behind his Tank, he again dashed across the open ground to his assistance. He was hit in doing so, but succeeded in reaching the Tank when a few minutes later he was again hit, fatally, in the act of dressing his wounded driver. During the whole of this period he was within full view and short range of the enemy machine guns and rifle-pits, and throughout, by his prompt and heroic action, showed an utter disregard for his own personal safety." Second Lieutenant SEWELL, HERBERT VICTOR Died 13/11/1916 Aged 27 186th Bde. Royal Field Artillery Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Sewell, of 26, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London. B.A., LL.B. (Cantab.). Barrister-at-Law. His brothers Cecil Harold Sewell, VC and Harry Kemp Sewell also fell. Commemorated at THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Location: Somme, France Number of casualties: 72337 Cemetery/memorial reference: Pier and Face 1 A and 8 A. Lieutenant SEWELL, HARRY KEMP Died 20/08/1917 Aged 32 21st Bty. Royal Field Artillery formerly West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own) Son of Harry Bolton Sewell and Mary Ann Sewell, of 26, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London. A Solicitor and Deputy Coroner for West Kent. Served in Mesopotamia. His brothers Herbert Victor Sewell and Cecil Harold Sewell, VC also fell. Buried at CHARLTON CEMETERY, GREENWICH Location: London, United Kingdom Number of casualties: 114 Cemetery/memorial reference: 2 "C." C. 355.
