LIEUTENANT RICHARD HENRY CHARLES EWART
THE BLACK WATCH
16TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 26
BURIED: ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
Charlie Ewart was killed whilst "bravely maintaining touch between two halves of his Company, and working a machine gun out in front of their position. There he was hit and died the same day of multiple gun shot wounds" [Eagle House Magazine].
Richard Henry Charles Ewart was the only son of Major General Sir Richard Ewart who himself had a distinguished war record serving as Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport (Indian Army) on the Western Front 1914-1915, and Deputy Adjutant and QMG with the East African Expeditionary Force 1915-1918.
After the war Ewart served in Berlin as British Red Cross Commissioner for the Repatriation of British prisoners-of-war and President of the Inter-Allied Commission for the Repatriation of Russian prisoners. His first wife, Richard's mother, died in 1898.