Warren Lewis was a supply officer with the Royal Army Service Corps of the British Army during and after the First World War.
15 Facts About Warren Lewis
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Warren Lewis had been taken there by his mother Flora on 10 May 1905.
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In 1909, Warren Lewis transferred to Malvern College in Worcestershire, where his brother was sent a few years later.
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On 10 September 1913, Warren Lewis began studying privately with William T Kirkpatrick for four months in preparation for the entrance examination of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
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Warren Lewis finished 22nd of 201 candidates, winning him a prize cadetship, with which he entered the college on 4 February 1914.
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Warren Lewis passed out of the Royal Military College, after only nine months of training due to wartime need; the normal course of study was 18 months to two years.
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Warren Lewis was sent to France on 4 November 1914 to serve with the 4th Company 7th Divisional Train in the British Expeditionary Force.
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Warren Lewis was made a temporary captain on 24 September 1916.
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Warren Lewis retired on 21 December 1932 with the rank of captain, after 18 years of active service.
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Warren Lewis was granted the temporary rank of major when recalled to active service on 4 September 1939.
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Lewis died in 1963, Warren edited the first published edition of his brother's letters, adding a memoir of his brother as a preface to the letters.
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In 1982, selections from Warren Lewis's diary were published under the title Brothers and Friends.
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Warren Lewis renewed his Christian faith beginning in May 1931.
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Warren Lewis was a frequent participant in weekly meetings of the Inklings and recorded comments about them in many of his diary entries.
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Warren Lewis was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford, where he is interred in his brother's grave.