Name
Nathaniel Halford Newman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/05/1918
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
25954
Royal Field Artillery
"C" Battery, 173rd Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FORESTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
I. B. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Son of Joseph William and Isabela Newman; husband of Lillie Jane Morris (formerly Newman), of 26, West Rd., Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
Nathaniel was born in 1883 at Dagenham, Essex. In the 1911 census, he had moved to West Ham and was a ‘Stationary Engine Man’.
Prior to this, in 1904 Nathan married Lillie Jane Tedder at Strood in Kent. Lillie Tedder was born at West Road, Sawbridgeworth in 1877, but by 1891 had moved away from the town and was living at Manuden.
Wartime Service
Nathaniel served with the Royal Field Artillery, 173rd Brigade. His date of death is given as 23 May 1918.
His cause of death is unknown, but because where he is buried was the site of a field hospital (92nd Field Ambulance), he is likely to have died of wounds.
Nathaniel Newman is buried at Foreste Communal Cemetery, France. He was aged 35.
Nathaniel’s only link to Sawbridgeworth appears to be through his wife who was born there.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
