Private Albert Edward Hewardine
Albert Edward Hewardine was born on 9 November 1899 at 5 Dalymount Terrace, Dublin, the last of four children of Arthur Hewardine, sorting clerk in the Dublin GPO telegraph office, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Stephanie (nee Coard). By the time of the 1911 Census he was living at 49 Moyne Road, Rathimines, Dublin, with his parents and two surviving siblings. On 16 August 1917 he was employed in the Northern Banking Company at its head office in Belfast. Transfers followed to Virginia and Grafton Street branches.
Hewardine enlisted in the North Irish Horse on 9 May 1918 (regimental number unknown at present). He served at the regiment's reserve depot at Antrim before being demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve, in February 1919.
Following demobilisation Hewardine resumed work at the Northern Bank, working at Head Office (1919), Oldcastle (1919), Downpatrick (1921), Claudy (1922) and Ball’s Branch (1922).
Hewardine's brother, Ernest Arthur, also served in the war, in the South Irish Horse and Machine Gun Corps.
Some of the information above is sourced from Gavin Bamford's site honouring the officials of the Northern Bank and Belfast Bank who served during the two World Wars and in more recent conflicts. northernbankwarmemorials.blogspot.com.au