The death of Tobias Lewis cuts short a career full of promise and evokes the profoundest regret among all who knew him. He with his brothers, of whom one was killed some months ago in Flanders, took his place in the ranks soon after the outbreak of war. He passed a hard year in the trenches, taking part (I am sure with devotion and bravery) in several engagements. In him we Jews have reason to deplore the death of a Jewish artist of exceptional ability. The Turner Gold Medal was gained by him when at the Royal Academy Schools and he bade fair to take a high place among his contemporaries. His modesty and the charm of his personality made him very popular and it is with the deepest grief that I find myself paying this last little tribute to the memory of a dear young friend.

In the course of a letter to Mrs Lewis with reference to the late Lance-Corporal Tobias Lewis, Lieutenant J. F. Robins, Royal Fusiliers says: - "Your son was one of the old members of our battalion, and therefore well-known to us. We had been able to appreciate him: a good, straight and trustworthy soldier. In the face of heavy enemy shelling he stuck to his post and through him the men around him were able to be sent out of danger. Thanks to his devotion to duty and to his comrades, a good many lives were saved".