Name
Frederick Sidney Newman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
96990
Royal Garrison Artillery
231st Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Newman was born at Keynsham, near Bristol in the summer of 1875. In the 1901 Census he was recorded working as a Plumber and Gas Fitter and living at the High Street, Abbots Langley, with his wife Edith, who he had married some ten years earlier.
By the time of the 1911 Census the couple had moved to 31 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley. Frederick, or Fred as he was known in the local records, was employed at the Asylum and worked as a Tinsmith.
He was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1916 serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), and continued to be listed with the RGA through to the end of the War.
Frederick was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919, serving with the rank of Staff Sergeant with the 231st Siege Battery of the RGA. At the time his address was recorded at 31 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley.
Frederick Newman survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
