Victor Edward PREWETT

Victor Edward Prewett was born in Cooktown on the  6 May 1891 to Walter Stevens Prewett and Martha Eades and the youngest of 7 children. Maud Agnes born 1880, Eva Eades 1881, Walter Edgar 1883, Violet Martha 1885, George Cecil 1886, Ida 1887, Mabel Clare 1889 then Victor Edward in 1891. He attended the Cairns State School and at the Cairns Show in August 1904 and 1905 received awards in the Juvenile Work, Section 2, Exercise Book Class V and VI.

In the 1913 Electoral Roll, Victor was a grocer in Herberton, Qld.

Victor’s mother Martha Eades died 12 May 1927. She originated the ‘mile of pennies’ movement, during the Great War, on behalf of the Red Cross. His father Walter Stevens, who spent 47 years in the Far North and regarded as a “Railway Veteran” and “great constructionist” died on the 18 November 1934. They are buried in the Martyn Street Cemetery, Cairns.

On his enlistment in Cairns his age was 22 years 8 months, occupation a Grocer and his next of kin his father Walter S. Prewett, McLeod St., Cairns. His height was 5 feet 10 inches, weighed 140 pounds with dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair. His religion was Church of England.

Victor transferred from transport to a bearer in France on his own request on the 14 June 1916 and was attached to the 44 Casualty Clearing Station on the 9 August 1916 but rejoined his unit on the 12 August 1916.

Victor Edward Prewett was killed in action on the 26 August 1916 and remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.