Born in Radford City, Virginia, LCpl Lewton studied Agriculture while attending Oregon Agricultural College. While serving with the Company F, 20th Engineers, 6th Battalion, on 5 Feb 1918 the SS Tuscania (which LCpl Lewton was aboard), was torpedoed by the by a UB-77 German submarine. When the SS Tuscania sank several of the ship member’s bodies washed ashore the Isle of Islay, a little island in Scotland. The people of this Island did everything within their power to bury these men with honors including staying up all night to sew an American Flag for the burial. A monument in his and the rest of the 230 men that died from the Sinking of the SS Tuscania can be found on the Isle of Islay Scotland, as well as a museum with the book that documented who washed up on shore and where they were originally buried. His body was later exhumed and buried in Oregon. He was survived by his parents, and three siblings.
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