Roll of Honour - Cambridgeshire - Newton in the Isle

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NEWTON IN THE ISLE WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Cliff Brown

The memorial can be found in the grounds of St James Church, Church Lane, Newton, Fenland, Cambridgeshire south of the church. The memorial takes the form of an obelisk mounted on a four stepped plinth.There are 12 names listed for World War 1 only. Unveiled 1920.

Photograph from an old postcard

ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NEWTON
IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF OUR BRAVE BOYS WHO FELL IN
THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN
HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

BARNES	Charles Edgar	18541 Pte, 6th Lincolnshire Regiment. Died phthisis, 9-4-18, age 18. Son of Harry & Lucy Barnes, of Tydd Gote. Born at Newton. Newton (St James) Churchyard.
BOSWORTH	A Edward	9205 Pte, 7th Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 3-7-16, age 21. Son of Edward Bosworth, Broadgate Rd, Sutton St Edmund. Blighty Valley Cemetery, Somme, France.
COURTMAN	Stephen	20079 Pte, 2nd Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 20-7-16, age 18. Son of Thomas Courtman, 19 Bedford St, Wisbech. Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. See also March
HUDSON	Charles	3/9991 Pte, 8th Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 19-10-16. Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
KING	Sidney William	R/10512 Rfn, 9th King's Royal Rifle Corps. 30-7-15, age 23. Son of John & Phoebe King, Newton Villa, Friday Bridge. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium. Brother of below.
KING	Archie Richard	18866 Pte, 7th Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 3-7-16, age 19. Son of John & Phoebe King, of Friday Bridge. Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Brother of above.
MERRELL	Charles	320547 Pte, 15th (Yeomanry) Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds 15-12-17, Egypt. Ramleh War Cemetery.
ROSE	David	139362 Pte, Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 25-8-18, age 26. Formerly 20316 Middlesex Regiment. Son of Walter & Jane Rose, Roman Bank, Leverington. Born Newton. Lived Tydd. Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais.
ROSE	Frederick Victor	206967 Gunner, A Battery, 3rd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died home 4-3-17, age 19. Son of Margaret Jane Rose, Fold Lane, Tydd St Giles. Newton (St James) Churchyard.
THOMPSON	Silas James	157808 Pte, 41st Btn Machine Gun Corps. Died 1-11-18. Formerly 16921 Suffolk Regiment. Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinghe, Belgium.
THOMPSON	Walter	No information.
WILSON	Percy Rowland	G/21254 Pte, 2nd Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment. Killed in action 13-5-17, age 21. Lived Four Gotes. Formerly 10685 East Surrey Regiment. Arras Memorial, France.
Also listed for this parish in the Ely Cathedral Second World War Book of Remembrance:
HUNNS	James Leonard	Marine, Royal Marines, d 29/4/1945, age 28, buried: EMNETH (ST. EDMUND) NEW CHURCHYARD, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Son of John and Edith Hunns; husband of Lilian Hunns, of Emneth, Cambridgeshire.
WRIGHT	Reginald	Possibly: Reginald WRIGHT, Driver, 2017831, 560 Field Coy., Royal Engineers, who died on Tuesday 12 September 1944, age 29. Commemorated: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL Singapore. Born and resident Cambridgeshire.

Last updated 28 November, 2018

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