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Gunner JOHN HARRISON NEWTON

Service Number: 1098531
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Horse Artillery

12 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 11 December 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEJA WAR CEMETERY

2. C. 11.

Tunisia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Archer Newton and Henrietta Newton; husband of Mary Ann Newton, of Wingate, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HE LOVED THE WIND ON THE HEATH AND SAW THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SKIRTS OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

BEJA WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 396
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