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Private JOHN WILLIAM NEWTON

Service Number: 2228
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

1st/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 September 1915

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. G. 6A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Medal of St. George, 4th Class (Russia). Son of George and Eliza Ann Newton, of Mansfield-Woodhouse, Mansfield, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE SIGHT OF THE UNWISE THEY SEEMED TO DIE WIS. III
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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