Name
Edward (Teddy) Newton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/06/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
723491
London Regiment *1
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IV. B. 50.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Mrs. E. F. Newton, of 135, Stockwell Park Rd., London.
Teddy was a pupil at Hitchin Grammar School, but the dates of attendance are not known but it must have been before 1904 and was probably only for a short period. He was a genial person and a consistent supporter of the Old Boys Club. He had been born in Lambeth and he enlisted in Brixton in London.
Wartime Service
He trained in the 2/5th Battalion of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) at Sevenoaks with the Regimental Number 3926. He was then transferred to the 24th (County of London) Battalion ‘The Queen' s’ with the Regimental Number 723491.
In the Spring of 1917 he was in hospital at Boulogne suffering from rheumatism. The circumstances of his death have not become available.
He was buried in Plot 4, Row B, Grave 50 in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais in France. A private inscription on the stone reads "In loving memory of my beloved son age 24. Mother". Unusually, all the stones in this cemetery are laid flat, which usually denotes poor ground conditions.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
