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He was born in Greenwich, London.
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Charles Lewin
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Lewin entered service in the Royal Navy on 15 July 1888, some years prior to his first recorded appearance for the Royal Navy Cricket Club, which came in 1906. By 1917, with World War I in progress, Lewin was recorded as being a Captain, commanding the ship HMS Princess. One recorded battle in which he took place formed part of the East African Campaign and details of it were recorded in the London Gazette.
The operation, carried out at the request of General January Smuts, involved the naval support of the Zanzibar African Rifles and other British Empire forces during the operation.
Lewin"s ship was one of the naval taskforce which successfully supported the occupation of the coastal town of Saadani. Several years after the war, on 24 November 1925, he was promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of Rear Admiral.
Following the conclusion of the war, Lewin played a single first-class match for the Royal Navy against the Army in 1920, when he was 45 years old. In the Royal Navy first innings he scored 15 runs before being dismissed by Stanley Cornwallis and in their second innings he scored 37 before being dismissed by Montagu Burrows.
He appeared in three other matches for the Royal Navy between 1906 and 1910, but these were not first-class fixtures.
In the first of these, against Master Control Console, he scored 139. Lewin also played for Devon in the 1920 Minor Counties Championship, making three appearances.
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