Born in 1892 in Ilfracombe, Devon, Ernest Lewis began his golfing career as an assistant at his local club before taking up his first post as professional to at the 9-hole Newton Golf Club in Monmouthshire where he remained from 1908-1914. While at Newton he beceme a member of The Professional Golfers Association, Welsh Section in 1911. His last recorded club before enlistmant was Aberystwyth where he was from 1914-1917. Fighting with the Welsh Fusiliers, Lance Corporal Lewis was taken as a German prisoner at Ypres, Belgium during the Battle of Messines. He was later to die in captivity in Berlin in July 1918.

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