Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booka mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =NEWMAN, SAMUEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 1706, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =NEWMAN, STANLEY FRANCIS=, Sergt., No. 1093, Essex Yeomanry, 3rd _s._ of Francis Newman, of Moor Hall, Thorley, Bishop's Stortford, Farmer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard Stock; _b._ Moor Hall, Thorley, co. Hertford, 18 July, 1885; educ. Bishop's Stortford College; served six years in the Essex Yeomanry, 1906-12; then went to Singapore and later to Australia, where he was farming; returned to England in July, 1914, and when war broke out the following month, immediately rejoined his old regt. and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France, 28 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action in an attack on the German trenches at Ypres, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ The Capt. commanding C Squadron wrote: "The regt. was sent up to reinforce the infantry at this part of the line about a week ago. On the 13th the Germans succeeded in taking a bit of our line and the regt., together with the two other regts. of our Brigade, was ordered to retake it. They had to advance 500 yards of open ground, most of it going under a very heavy fire from shells, rifle, and machine-gun fire. Your son reached the enemy's trenches safely, and helped to recapture them, but a few minutes later he was shot while standing near Mr. Holt who was also wounded. His death is a great blow to us all, officers and men alike, and he leaves a place in the Squadron which will be hard to fill. Everybody agreed that he was one of the very best N.C.Os. in the regt. and his troop would do anything for him." And Trooper H. J. Tucker writing to his father said: "Will you just break the news on my behalf, that my two comrades, Sergt. Stanley Newman and Corpl. Frank Bird, have both been killed in action during a great charge, which took place two days ago. When there was a roll call the whole regt. had 168 casualties--killed, wounded and missing; amongst them our Colonel and many officers." =NEWMAN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Acting Chief Stoker, 293000, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =NEWMAN, WILLIAM HERBERT=, Private, No. 3082, 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Harry Newman, of 15, Marlow Road, Southall, Police Sergeant, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of Thomas Betts, for 53 years on L. & N.W.R.; _b._ Haggerston, N., 23 June, 1895; educ. Featherstone Road Boys' School, Southall; was a clerk with Messrs. Kearby & Sons, Rubastic Road, Southall; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 5 Sept. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; trained at Hampton and Staines; left for Gibraltar, 1 Feb. 1915; went to France at the end of July; took part in the Battle of Loos, 25-26 Sept. and was killed in action near La Bassée, 19 Oct. 1915; _unm._ Buried at Wye Farm. [Illustration: =William Herbert Newman.=] =NEWPORT, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13141, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Newport, of The Green, Beyton, Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =NEWSHAM, CHARLES=, Private, No. 2763, 16th Platoon, C Coy., 9th (Highlanders) Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Robert Newsham, of 6, Broadway, Withington, Manchester, a buyer for Ralli Bros., of Manchester, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of John Gorrie, Manchester; _b._ Cheetham, Manchester, 16 May, 1885; educ. Cheetham Higher Grade School; was a buyer for Ralli Bros., and a member of the Manchester Royal Exchange. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Scots with his great friend Gerard G. S. Frost (who was afterwards killed during the same bombardment as himself), 10 Nov. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, left for the Front towards the end of Feb.; he lost his life during the bombardment of Ypres, three shells dropping into the billets of his company, killing him and six of his comrades, 7 April, 1915. He was the first member of the Manchester Royal Exchange killed in the war. [Illustration: =Charles Newsham.=] =NEWSHAM, RICHARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13680, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =NEWSTEAD, GEORGE POPE=, Major, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., and Tempy, Lieut.-Col. Sierra Leone Battn., West African Frontier Force, only _s._ of James Newstead, of Ashby Manor, Horncastle, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Louisa Anne, dau. of George Pope; _b._ Bristol, 23 Sept. 1875; educ. Rugby School (1889-94, where he was in the cricket eleven and football fifteen, and won the Athletic Sports' Challenge Cup) and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Suffolks, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 June, 1899, Capt. 15 March, 1905, and Major, Nov. 1914; served in the South African War, 1899-1902, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899-1900, including action at Colesberg (1-6 Jan.); in the Orange Free State, April and May, 1900; in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Pretoria; in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900; in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900; and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen's medal with three clasps and King's medal with two clasps); seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force, 16 Sept. 1905; served with the Sierra Leone Battn. at Freetown and in the bush under Major Palmer until 26 Oct. 1909; then returned to England and rejoined the 2nd Suffolks, but in Aug. 1910, he again went to West Africa, and on 1 April, 1913, was promoted Tempy. Lieut.-Col. He died at Bare, Cameroons, West Africa, 5 March, 1915, of wounds received at Stoebel's Farm on the previous day. Buried at Bare. Describing the action, an officer wrote: "On 4 March, 1915, I was with the advanced guard, which the colonel was commanding, and we came under a very hot fire--he, his Adjutant and myself being all together for about half an hour. He then ordered me to take our Maxim gun back a little way, and came with me to select a new position for it. After this he left me and went forward to the right under a very heavy fire to make further dispositions, and I lost sight of him; but about five minutes later his Adjutant ran past me and called out that he himself was hit in the face and that the Colonel had been shot in the side." He _m._ Maude Aileen, dau. of the late Col. Hanley, R.E.; _s.p._ [Illustration: =George Pope Newstead.=] =NEWTH, WALTER JOSEPH=, Trooper, No. 11/495 2nd Queen Alexandra's Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of George Charles Newth, of Sandy Farm, Luckington, Chippenham, Wilts, Farmer, by his wife, Charlotte Mary, dau. of J. H. Harris; _b._ Sandy Farm, Luckington, Chippenham, co. Wilts, 23 April, 1891; educ. Village School there; left home in July, 1912, to take up farming in New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted Sep |