Newcastle Daily Chronicle 11/07/1916
The Newcastle Daily Journal 10/07/1916 reports:
Mr William Sewell, of High Croft, Whitburn, has received a telegram from the War Office informing him that his son Captain William Tait Sewell of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, is reported missing, and is believed to have been killed on July 1st.
Captain Sewell who was 34 years of age, and unmarried, was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and afterwards studied at Newcastle College of Medicine. He took his M.D. degree in Durham in 1908, and his D.Ph. degree at Manchester in 1909.
For some time he was the resident medical officer at the Fleming Memorial Hospital, Newcastle, and later he became pathological lecturer at the Newcastle College of Medicine, and pathologist at the Newcastle Royal Infirmary and the Fleming Memorial Hospital.
He was a member of the Pathological Society of Great Britain, and was also assistant medical officer to the Durham County Sanatorium at Stanhope. He had been conducting research work at Freiburg University, Germany, for about five months prior to the outbreak of war, and he only arrived home a few days before war was declared.
He was a captain in the Officers' Training Corps at Newcastle, and upon the outbreak of War he became acting Adjutant.
After three months service in this position he joined an Ulster volunteer regiment of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, with whom he had been at the front since last autumn. He was senior captain in his regiment, and had latterly been acting major. William Sewell was the eldest son of Mr William Sewell, M.Inst.,C.E., agent for Sir Hedworth Williamson. Bart., and managing director of the Fulwell Lime Works Ltd., Sunderland, who has two other sons serving in the army-Lieut S.E. Sewell, who is with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia. And 2nd Lieut , T.R. Sewell, who is with the R.F.A., in France.
He is remembered in Newcastle on NUT051 and NUT066, and in Whitburn on W100.01, W100.02, W100.03 and W100.04
