Service no. 4312
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles), 16th Battalion
Killed in action on 26 January 1916, aged about 24
Remembered at Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Lived in Clapham
Information from the 1911 census
Charles Alfred Ewen, aged 19 in 1911 lived at 64 Victoria Road, an eight-roomed house in Clapham, with his parents and four sisters. William Thomas Ewen, 54, was a travelling draper, born in Shoreditch, east London; Emma Ewen, 50, was born in Clerkenwell, London. Charles Alfred is listed as "assisting in the business" (of travelling draper).
Alice Ewen, 26, was born in Mile End, east London (no occupation)
Charles Alfred Ewen, 19, born in Mile End, "assisting in the business"
Maud Mary Ewen, 16, born in Hackney, east London, "student"
Edith Gertrude Ewen, 14, born in Hackney, "student"
Grace Ewen, 11, born in Hackney, "school"